英语的变迁 : 一种语言，多种声音

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations and Special Symbols

Preface

1 English - the WorkingTongue of the Global Village

English is spoken in circles

The Inner Circle

The Outer Circle

The Expanding Circle

Do we need a world language?

Why English?

One or two explanations

Part I History of an Island Language

2 The First 500 Years

Roman Britain

Ships are sighted with English in embryo onboard

Christianity in the Isles

The Viking age

What was Old English like?

The Lords Prayer

Beowulf

Two translations into Modern English

3 1066 and All That

Middle English

An influx of French words

Grammatical endings disappear

Geoffrey Chaucer and William Caxton

Modern English in the Making

The Three Rs - Renaissance, Reformation,Restoration

English and Latin

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Part II The Spread of English around the World

5 English Goes to the New World

6 English Transplanted

7 English Varieties in the British Isles

8 American and British English

9 From Caribbean English to Creole

Part III A Changing Language in Changing Times

10 The Standard Language Today

11 Linguistic Change in Progress：Back to the InnerCircle

12 English into the Future

Notes：Comments and References

References

Index of People

Index of Topics

Pronunciation

《英语的变迁：一种语言，多种声音》以历史发展为线索，始终紧扣英语自形成伊始便不断呈现出的在语言变体意义上的多元特征，全面讨论英语的过去、现状及未来发展趋势，指出这一语言将以不同方言共存为本质特征，成为全球众多族群真正共有的世界语言。图书的适用对象：英语专业研究生、学者。