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English : one tongue, many voices / Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech ; with contributions from David Crystal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Svartvik, Jan, author.
- Leech, Geoffrey N., author.
- Standardized Title:
- Engelska. English
- Language:
- English
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- English language--History.
- English language.
- History.
- English language--Variation.
- English language--Variation--Foreign countries.
- Globalization.
- Communication, International.
- Culture and globalization.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
- Contents:
- English: the working tongue of the global village
- The first 500 years
- 1066 and all that
- Modern English in the making
- English goes to the new world
- English transplanted
- English varieties in the British isles
- American and British English
- English, Pidgins and Creoles
- The standard language today
- Linguistic change in progress : back to the inner circle
- Electronic English
- English into the future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-291) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781137550224
- 1137550228
- OCLC:
- 959302880
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