English as a Global Language

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1、EnglishasagloballanguageSecondeditionDavidCrystal,worldauthorityontheEnglishlanguage,presentsalivelyandfactualaccountoftheriseofEnglishasagloballanguageandex-ploresthewhysandwhereforesofthehistory,currentstatusandfuturepotentialofEnglishastheinternationallanguag

2、eofcommunication.En-glishhasbeenlaudedasthemost‘successful’languageever,with1,500millionspeakersworldwide;butCrystalavoidstakingsidesandtellsthestoryinameasuredbutengagingway,backedbyfactsandfigures.Thisneweditionofhisclassicbookcontainsextrasections(onsubjectsin

3、-cludingthelinguisticfeaturesofNewEnglishes,thefutureofEnglishasaworldlanguage,andthepossibilityofanEnglish‘family’oflanguages),footnotesandafullbibliography.Thereareupdatesthroughout.ThisisabookforanyoneofanynationalityconcernedwithEnglish:teachers,students,lan

4、guageprofessionals,politicians,generalreadersandanyonewithaloveofthelanguage.DAVIDCRYSTALisoneoftheworld’sforemostauthoritiesonlanguage.HeisauthorofthehugelysuccessfulCambridgeencyclopediaoflanguage(1987;secondedition1997),CambridgeencyclopediaoftheEnglishlangua

5、ge(1995),Languagedeath(2000),LanguageandtheInternet(2001)andShakespeare’swords(2002,withBenCrystal).Aninterna-tionallyrenownedwriter,journaleditor,lecturerandbroadcaster,hereceivedanOBEin1995forhisservicestothestudyandteachingoftheEnglishlanguage.Hiseditedbooksi

6、ncludeseveraleditionsofTheCambridgeencyclopedia(1990–2000)andrelatedpublications,Wordsonwords(2000,withHilaryCrystal)andThenewPenguinencyclopedia(2002).EnglishasagloballanguageSecondeditionDAVIDCRYSTALCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,Ca

7、peTown,Singapore,SãoPauloCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridge,UnitedKingdomPublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYorkwww.cambridge.orgInformationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521823470©DavidCrystal1997,2003T

8、hisbookisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewrittenpermissio