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Dec 20, 2010 · How English evolved into a global language. 20 December 2010. Comments. As the British Library charts the evolution of English in a new major exhibition, author Michael Rosen gives a brief history ...
Apr 3, 2024 · Historically, the essential factor for the establishment of a global language is that it is spoken by those who wield power. Latin was the lingua franca of its time, although it was only ever a minority language within the Roman Empire as a whole. Crucially, though, it was the language of the powerful leaders and administrators and of the Roman ...
Jun 4, 2010 · Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language. By Robert McCrum. Hardcover, 331 pages. W. W. Norton & Company. List price: $26.95. Read An Excerpt. But English is much more than ...
Jan 18, 2022 · Salomone’s South Africa chapter is among the most interesting in the book. Along with Afrikaans, English is one of South Africa’s 11 official languages, and even though only 9.6 percent of the ...
trol towers. At international meetings English is often the default language or even the only language. In many fields of knowledge publication is primarily in English. Other languages continue to be vital locally, nationally, and regionally, but for the first time in history a single language has become the global lingua franca.
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About this book. In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions.
