Ebook: Globish: how the English language became the world's language
Author: McCrum Robert
- Tags: angleščina, English language--Globalization, English language--History, English language, History, English language -- History, English language -- Globalization, angleščina -- zgodovina
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- City: New York
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
"A fascinating study not only of the roots and growth of our own language but of its future."—Bloomsbury ReviewIt 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 Anglo-American imperium has become the world's lingua franca. In the twenty-first century, writes the author, English + Microsoft = Globish.
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