Globish how the English language became the world's language
It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. In this provocative new look at the course of empire, Robert McCrum shows how the language of the Angl...
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New York
W.W. Norton & Company
2010
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: 'Crazy English'
- pt. One: 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.
- pt. Two: Pioneers
- 'A whole country of English': reinventing freedom and originality
- 'Common hopes and common dreams': lighting out for the territory
- 'The audiacity of hope': from slavery to redemption
- pt. Three: Popularizers
- Rule, Britainnia! How England became British
- East, in a western voice: the people's empire
- 'At the top of the world': the imperial swan song
- pt. Four: Modernizers
- 'A willingness of the heart': the American century I
- 'The unity of the English-speaking peoples': The American century II
- 'The world at your fingertips': from Google to Globish, 1989-2009
- Pt Five: Globalizers
- One world, one dream: 'conquer English to make China strong'
- 'Virtually running America': India, the Far East and beyond
- Epilogue: 'A thoroughfare for all thoughts'