English

global language, global anguish

Om engelsk som globalt sprog, dets udvikling, udbredelse og brug i mødet mellem kulturer

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Indhold: Global English (David Crystal: What is a global language? (2003) ; Why English? (1996) ; What is standard English? (1996). Ruth Wajnryb: A thousand languages, all of them English (2006)) ; The roots of English (The roots of English (2003) / Gunnel Melchers and Philip Shaw. Beowulf (7-10th cent.). Seamus Heaney: Beowulf (1999). Melwyn Bragg: Chaucer : The Canterbury tales (ab. 1400, 2003)) ; The first dispersal (Jennifer Jenkins: The two dispersals of England ; The first dispersal : English is transported to the "New world" (2003). William Shakespeare: The tempest (1611). Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719). V.S. Naipaul: The mystic masseur (1957). Bruce Chatwin: The songlines (1987). David Malouf: The only speaker of his tongue (1985). Katherine Manfield: How Pearl Button was kidnapped (1988). Witi Ihimaera: The affectionate kidnappers (1988). André Brink: Pomegranates and quinces (2005)) ; The second dispersal (Jennifer Jenkins: The second dispersal : English is transported to Asia and Africa (2003). Chinua Achebe: Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Ngũgĩ Thiong'o: Decolonizing the mind (1986). Upamanyu Chatterjee: English, August (1988). Tukoji R. Pandit: Bangalore : from "Bar Galore" to Bengaluru (2003). Room service) ; Polyglot (Bill Bryson: English as a world language. David Crystal: Hybridization (2003). Hari Kunzru: Transmission (2004). Monica Ali: Brick lane (2003). Zadie Smith: Mitosis (2000))

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