Globish af Robert McCrum (Bog)

How English Became the World's Language
Forfatter: Robert McCrum
Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 353
Forlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Udgivelsesår: 2010
Robert McCrum, coauthor of the best-selling book and television series The Story of English, shows how the language of the Anglo-American imperium has become the world's lingua franca--From vendor description.
Titel: Globish
Udgave: 1. udgave

Sammendrag: A small island in the North Atlantic, pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes a dominant world power whose spreading influence carries its language and literature everywhere on earth. Globish charts the spread of global English from 'crazy English' in China to the call centers of Bangalore, and from the King James Bible to President Obama's speeches. It is a brilliant and provocative snapshot of a world in the midst of extraordinary, and unfinished, change.
Type: Paperback