Globish : how the English language became the world's language /
Robert McCrum, coauthor of the best-selling book and television series The Story of English, shows how the language of the Anglo-American imperium has become the world's lingua franca.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2010]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Founders. In the beginning: four invasions and a cultural revolution
- Defeat into victory: the DNA of self-expression
- 'Lighte Englisshe': medieval mass communications
- Eating paper, drinking ink: Shakespeare & Co.
- Pioneers. 'A whole country of English': re-inventing freedom and originality
- 'Common hopes and common dreams': lighting out for the territory
- 'The audacity of hope': from slavery to redemption
- Popularisers. Rule, Britannia!: How England became British
- East, in a western voice: the People's Empire
- 'At the top of the world': the imperial swan song
- Modernisers. 'A willingness of the heart': the American century I
- 'The unity of the English-speaking people': the American century II
- 'The world at your fingertips': from Google to globish, 1989-2009
- Globalisers. One world, one dream: 'Conquer English to make China strong'
- 'Virtually running America': India, the Far East and beyond.