He is a consultant for Babel - The Language Magazine, for which he has also written articles. He is the Patron of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), honorary president of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), and Patron of the UK National Literacy Association. His many academic interests include English language learning and teaching, clinical linguistics, forensic linguistics, language death, "ludic linguistics" (Crystal's neologism for the study of language play), style, English genre, Shakespeare, indexing, and lexicography.
He is also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. Ĭrystal was awarded the OBE in 1995 and became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000. His association with the BBC ranges from, formerly, a BBC Radio 4 series on language issues to, more recently, podcasts on the BBC World Service website for people learning English. Retired from full-time academia, he works as a writer, editor and consultant, and contributes to television and radio broadcasts. Since then he has lectured at Bangor University and the University of Reading and is an honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor. CareerĬrystal studied English at University College London between 19, and was a researcher under Randolph Quirk between 19, working on the Survey of English Usage. His son Ben Crystal is also an author, and has co-authored four books with his father. He currently lives in Holyhead with his wife, Hilary, a former speech therapist and now children's author. He grew up with his mother in Holyhead, North Wales, and Liverpool, England, where he attended St Mary's College from 1951. Samuel Crystal in London, and of his half-Jewish heritage. He remained estranged from and ignorant of his father for most of his childhood, but later learnt (through work contacts and a half-brother) of the life and career of Dr.
Before he reached the age of one, his parents separated.
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