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Jul 20, 2023 · It discusses the history and current status of English as a worldwide lingua franca and describes the types of words that are typically adopted into other languages. It also describes how the English of England and of other former British colonies has affected American speech.
English has become a global language with over 380 million people speaking it as their first language and over 200 million people taking it as their second language. Another billion of people are in the process to learn it.
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Jan 18, 2022 · Vindicating Gramsci, Rosemary Salomone’s “The Rise of English” explores the language wars being fought all over the world, revealing the political, economic and cultural stakes behind these ...
Aug 7, 2007 · This article traces the major historical moves in the theorising of English, particularly in relation to its teaching, on its path towards globality, analysing how successive theories have located culture in, and subsequently displaced culture from, their models of language.
Jan 1, 2006 · The Handbook of World Englishes is a collection of newly commissioned articles focusing on selected critical dimensions and case studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied and pedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around the world.
Jul 20, 2023 · The United States of English tells the story of American speech from its earliest beginnings to its current state. Topics covered include the following: the foundations of American English, beginning with the earliest word adoptions; the origins of regional dialects; how the vocabulary developed; an exploration of American slang and language ...
Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance.
