Titlebook: English – One Tongue, Many Voices; Jan Svartvik,Geoffrey Leech Book 20061st edition Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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English — the Working Tongue of the Global VillageAhead of his time, the Canadian writer Marshall McLuhan predicted that electronically connected media would eventually transform the world into a huge ‘global village’. English has become the working tongue of that village.

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The First 500 YearsWe cannot understand what a language is until we know its history. More than for most subjects, history is the key to language, because the very fabric of a language — its vocabulary, its grammar, its spelling, and so on — is a living record of its past.

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English Goes to the New WorldAt the end of the nineteenth century, on being asked to name the single greatest fact in modern political history, the German statesman Otto von Bismarck answered: ‘The inherent and permanent fact that North America speaks English.’

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English TransplantedBy 1783 the thirteen colonies in America were lost for Britain. The English language, however, was not thrown out with the English. And, as the British Empire expanded, English spread to other continents: Australasia, Africa and Asia.

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The Standard Language Todayeems to have been accelerating, if we look at the massive growth of variation in English worldwide. With geographical spread have come divergences, especially in the form of new Englishes and creoles, as we saw in Chapters 6 and 9. But if we look only at standard English, the language seems to have been changing more slowly.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16379-1en highly personalized: it is men and women that make history. In this case it was Duke William of Normandy — known to the English as William the Conqueror — who defeated the English king Harold in the fateful year 1066. This classic date is usually remembered, though not celebrated, by the English

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The Language of Modern Politicsriod (Elizabeth I, 1558–1603). Yet we can see during the whole of this century that there was a growing pride and confidence in the English language. During the 200 years after William Caxton set up his printing press in London, the language continued to undergo great changes, especially changes tha

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