英语:全球通用语 当代国外语言学与应用语（英文版）
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作者： (英)克里斯特尔（Crystal，D.） 著，王逢鑫 导读
出 版 社： 外语教学与研究出版社
出版时间： 2003-7-1字数：版次： 1页数： 159印刷时间： 2003/07/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9787560023694包装： 平装编辑推荐
内容简介
This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in language issues,whatever their views on the subject.
作者简介
David Crystal,world authority on the English language,has written a timely and informative account of the phenomenon of English as a global ianguage.English is the most successful global language ever,with an estimated1500million speakers.But if its rise comtinues what will be the fate of less extensively spoken languages?And what would have been the impact of Bill Gates had grown up speaking Chinese?What makes a world language?Why is English the leading candidate?And will it continue to hold that position?
目录
王宗炎序
沈家煊序
导读
1 Why a global Language?
What is a global language?
What makes a global language?
Why do we need a global language?
What are the dangers of a global language?
Could anything stop a global language?
A critical era
2 Why English? The historical context
Origins
America
Canada
The Caribbean
Australia nad New Zealand
South Africa
South Asia
Former colonial Africa
South-east Asia and the South Pacific
Aworld View
3 Why English?The cultural foundation
4 Why English?The cultural legacy
5 The future of global English
Further reading
Index
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