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Feb 26, 2024 · Jianbu Yang. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11, Article number: 317 ( 2024 ) Cite this article. 585 Accesses. 2 Altmetric. Metrics. Abstract. This paper explores the ascent of...
- The British Empire
- The Industrial Revolutions
- Wartime Language Spread
By the nineteenth century, Britain was the new title holder for the largest empire in the world. 1. > India 2. > Australia 3. > the West Indies 4. > territories in Africa 5. > territories in the Middle East 6. > British Guiana 7. > Canada 8. > the United States These were among Britain’s conquests, which, all in all, accounted for 400 million peopl...
The industrial revolutions in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain would also help pave the way. Britain was quickly becoming a global leader in science, technology, and invention. The result was the transformation of commercial trends and new English-originated terminology.
World Wars I and II also gave clear indications of English language proliferation. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles, at the conclusion of WWI, was written in English, as well as French. Use of English surged with the WWII victory by English-speaking nations and the subsequent formation of the UN. With Europe in ruins after WWII, the United States and ...
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Nov 25, 2016 · Studies in Global Englishes, World Englishes and English as a lingua franca (ELF) in particular, demonstrate adaptable and fluid uses of English, enabling it to function as a powerful medium for intercultural interaction.
- Will Baker
- 2017
Sep 13, 2012 · The opening chapter, titled ‘What is this thing called English’, argues that the emergence of English as global lingua franca, defined here as the use of English among speakers of different first languages, calls for a reconceptualization of English as a resource appropriated by bilingual users on their own terms and adapted to their own ...
- Gibson Ferguson
- 2012
English fulfills the need for a global lingua franca, as it has spread to large areas of the world due to various factors such as: Spread of the Latin script; Colonisation, mainly by the British Empire, [a] thereby making English into the language with the most countries recognizing it as an official language;
Feb 26, 2013 · Central to Philippe Van Parijs’ recent text, Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World, are claims that the emergence of English as a global lingua franca is (1) inevitable, (2) necessary for transnational justice and (3) to be accelerated. After first outlining the reasoning behind these claims, this article then goes on to argue that ...