《英语的变迁--一种语言多种声音》由斯瓦特维克、种奇编著,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。
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations and Special Symbols
Preface
1 English - the Working Tongue 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
1066 and All That
Middle English
An influx of French words
Grammatical endings disappear
Geoffrey Chaucer and William Caxton
4 Modern English in the Making
The Three 'Rs' - Renaissance, Reformation, Restoration
English and Latin
The Elizabethan period
Shakespeare's language
The King James Bible - a milestone in the history of English
Restoration and reaction
English gains a new domain - the language of science
'Dictionary Johnson'
The 'End of History'?
Codification of the standard language
Part II The Spread of English around the World
5 English Goes to the New World
English takes root in America
The Pilgrim Fathers
The first Americanisms
Linguistic variety and uniformity in the United States
The American Revolution
The frontier moves further west
New Americans
English goes to Canada
Cartier and Canada
Loyalists' influence.
Canadian English
English Transplanted
Australia: the First Fleet
Kangaroo, koala, kookaburra become English
Australian English
New Zealand - Aotearoa
New Zealand English
English in Africa - the Inner Circle
English comes to South Africa
English in Africa - the Outer Circle
English in South Asia
'The jewel in the crown'
English in Southeast Asia
New Englishes
English Varieties in the British Isles
RP (Received Pronunciation)
Cockney
Estuary English