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Global Communication The English Language
ILS II SoSe 2020
Alicia Noak, Partena Alexiadou, Dominik Preissler
1. Historic point of view – language development
2. Use of English today
3. Americanization and a look in the future
4. Sources
https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/
Old English got mixed up with Old Norse
--> more than 2,000 new words
e.g. "give", "take" and "knife", "husband"
https://www.superprof.de/blog/geschichte-und-entwicklung-der-englischen-sprache/
strongly influenced by the official church language Latin and the conquest by the Normans
--> language of the royals became Norman
Norman French and Germanic languages (Latin)
conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066
Early Modern English from 1500 to 1750, influenced by the Renaissance
Late Modern English of the 19th and 20th century
the British Empire had spread English through its colonies and geopolitical dominance
--> English becoming the first truly global language
-->imperial control over more than a quarter of the world
-->spreading the English language far and wide resulted in the development of dozens of local versions and dialects of English
--> Contemporary English consisting of about one million words
Biggest spread in 1921
https://www.google.de/search?q=english+as+lingua+franca&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj_7cnzwsLqAhUMZxoKHZy3AFUQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=english+as+lingua+franca&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIECCMQJzIGCAAQCBAeOgQIABAeOgQIABAYUIKMAVihmwFgiJwBaABwAHgAgAFIiAGPBpIBAjEzmAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWc&sclient=img&ei=KkkIX_-wNYzOaZzvgqgF&bih=610&biw=1280#imgrc=Geq1r25bYLKjrM
https://www.google.de/search?q=english+vs.+globish&sxsrf=ALeKk00QCaokwagP4rUvEoeMjVhDRWYN-g:1594321831882&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVl8nT78DqAhWIxcQBHZIACUIQ_AUoAXoECAsQAw&biw=1280&bih=610&dpr=1.5#imgrc=CNsDQ9swhOJVSM
https://sites.google.com/a/email.vccs.edu/bus100cnaylormoses/home/strategies-for-reaching-global-markets
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