Titlebook: English – One Tongue, Many Voices; Jan Svartvik,Geoffrey Leech Book 2016Latest edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 201

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02366-0 people who speak English as their first language. In the United Kingdom, pronunciation reflects both regional and social factors. There are, of course, different geographical varieties: South-Western (‘West Country’) English, Northern English, Scottish English, and so forth. But what is traditional

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5668-2ndies and elsewhere in the world. These themes are closely related: although English-based creoles are widely spread across the tropical or subtropical parts of the world, they are concentrated most densely in the Caribbean, and their historical development cannot be better exemplified than by Jamai

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6321-5seems to have been accelerating if we look at the massive growth of variation in English worldwide. With geographical spread have come divergences, especially in the form of new Englishes and creoles, as we saw in Chapters 6 and 9. But if we look only at standard English, the language seems to have

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137527851 changes in pronunciation, but it is unlikely that grammar will appear on the agenda. This is probably for two reasons. First, most native English-speakers are ignorant about the grammar of their mother-tongue. Ask them about a grammatical problem, and they will dissolve into joking embarrassment. S

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14104-3embryo came a small insular language, which in time grew into a world language. So what will happen to English now? Will there be many Englishes, or just one? Will the international use and learning of English continue to grow? Or will other languages take its place? It is difficult to predict the f

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20566-0Ahead of his time, the Canadian writer Marshall McLuhan predicted that electronically connected media would eventually transform the world into a huge ‘global village’. English has become the working tongue of that village.

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