HOW THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BECAME WORLD'S LANGUAGE

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Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language


by Robert McCrum.
Deborah Cameron examines a history of linguistic globalisation.

Last month, as volcanic ash drifted across the skies of Europe, I found myself in a van travelling from Dubrovnik to Antwerp with a Belgian, a German, a Turkish couple living in Holland, a Russian studying in Dublin, a Chinese woman heading to Beijing via Amsterdam, and two Croatian drivers whose services we had hired. How did we communicate? In English, of course. That "of course" is the starting point for Robert McCrum's book, an account of how English achieved its present status, framed by an argument about the present and future consequences.





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