英语的变迁

出版时间：2011-2  出版社：外语教学与研究出版社  作者：Jan Svartvik,Geoffrey Leech  页数：287  
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内容概要

　　本书以历史发展为线索，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。

书籍目录

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 on
board
 Christianity in the Isles
 The Viking age
 What was Old English like?
 The Lord's 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
　……
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 Inner
Circle
 12 English into the Future
Notes:Comments and References
References
Index of People
Index of Topics
Pronunciation

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