English Language A Level

 

Required Reading
The Concise Oxford Dictionary (OUP, 2001) ISBN 0198602596 
or The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (2 volumes), (OUP, 1993) ISBN 019861134X
 

Highly Recommended Reading

The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of English Language by David Crystal (CUP, 1997) ISBN 0521559677
The English Language by David Crystal  (Penguin, 1998) ISBN 0140135324
Varieties of English by Dennis Freeborn et al (Second edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 1993) ISBN 0333589173
Child Language: Language Workbooks by Jean Stilwell Peccei (Routledge, 1999) ISBN 0415198364
Dialects: Language Workbooks by Peter Trudgill (Routledge, 1994) ISBN 0415090385
 

Other Recommended Reading

The Faber Book of Reportage by John Carey [ed.] (Faber and Faber, 1989) ISBN 0571141633
Describing Language by David Graddol, Jenny Cheshire and Joan Swann (Open University, 1994) ISBN 0335193153
Language Acquisition by Frank Myszor (Hodder and Stoughton, 1999) ISBN 0340730838
The Oxford Companion to the English Language by Tom McArthur [ed.] (OUP, 1992) ISBN 019280061
Discover Grammar by David Crystal (Longman, 1998) ISBN 0582294355
Sentence Structure Language Workbooks by Nigel Fabb (Routledge, 1994) ISBN 0415085691
Style: Language Workbooks by John Haynes (Routledge, 1995) ISBN 0415103967
Language and Style by Michael Jago (Hodder and Stoughton, 1999) ISBN 034073082X
Living Language by George Keith and John Shuttleworth  (Hodder and Stoughton, 2000) ISBN 0340771887
Analysing Talk by David Langford (Macmillan, 1994) ISBN 0333428595
Grammar, Structure and Style by Shirley Russell (OUP, 2001) ISBN 0198314787
Text and Discourse Analysis: Language Workbooks by Raphael Salkie (Routledge, 1995) ISBN 0415092787
Mastering Advanced English by S. Thorne (Macmillan, 1998) ISBN 0333698754 - not yet published
Language Change: Language Workbooks by R. L. Trask (Routledge, 1994) ISBN 0415085632
Your Own Words by Judith Wainwright  (Nelson Thornes, 1997) ISBN 0174900538