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1、AnAnalysistowardstheFormationofEnglishInternationalLanguagePositionIntroductionThereisnodoubtthatEnglishisamostprevailinglanguageintoday’sinternationalcommunications.Thenpeoplestarttowonder:WhyisEnglish?IfGermanshadnotturnedintoEnglish,therewillbenolanguagecalledEnglish.Although,iftheirlanguagehasno
2、tbecamecompletelydifferentfromAnglo-Saxonlanguage,therewillbenoEnglish.TheofficialnameofEnglandistheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland.Butnow,weusuallycallitEngland.Actuallythereisnoword“England”inhisname.Englishisunique.But,accordingtothenumberofnativespeakers,Englishisnotworld’sNo.1lang
3、uage.BecauseChinahasahugepopulationthatmakesChinesethefirstone.WiththefastgrowingofLatinAmerica’spopulation.SpanishhavesurpassedEnglishtobecomethesecond.Englishisthethird.Withoutargument,Englishistheworld’sfirstforeignlanguage.Itownsthelargestproportionoflanguagelearner.Therearemanias.Beatlesmania,h
4、ystericalteenagers,crying,pandemonium;Sportsmania,deafeningcrowds,allforoneidea,gettheballinthenet;Religiousmania,there’srapture,there’sweeping,there’svisions.Maniascanbegood.maniascanbealarming.ormaniascanbedeadly,likeNazi.Nowtheworldhasanewmania,amaniaforlearningEnglish.1Backgroundinformation1.1De
5、scriptionofEnglishEnglish,asweknow,developedinBritainandmorerecentlyinAmericaandelsewhereintheformerofBritishEmpire.ToBritain,Englishisanimmigrant16language.BroughtinwiththeinvadingofAnglo-Saxonsinthefifthcentury.Akmajian,Adrian.Linguistics:AnIntroductiontoLanguageandCommunication[M].5thed.Cambridge
6、,MA:MITPress,2001.Beforethat,theancestryofEnglishwasinthenortheastpartoftheContinent,borderingontheNorthSea.Butlongbeforethat,itwasadevelopmentofamuchearlierspeechwaywecallIndo-European,itistheoriginofmanyotherlanguagesofEuropeandsouthAsia.WecannotfindhistoricalrecordsofthoseprehistoricalIndo-Europe
7、anpeoples,butweknowsomethingfromcomparingthelanguagesthatdevelopedfromtheonetheyspoke.Alan,Ward.AHistoryofModernEnglishSoundsandMorphology[M].Trans.Anded.OxfordUniversityPress,1975.1.2FromOldEnglishto
