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  • David Crystal, English as a global language. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 150. Hb $9.95.

  • Roland Sussex
  • Journal:
    Language in Society / Volume 28 / Issue 1 / January 1999
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 1999, pp. 120-124
    Print publication:
    January 1999

  • The international march of English is one of the leading sociolinguistic phenomena of our times. There have been internationally dominant languages before – religious languages like Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, as well as Sanskrit and Koranic Arabic – and politico-cultural languages, often linked to the religious cultures with which they propagate: Greek and Latin again, French, and (in the 20th century until the fall of Communism) Russian. In the last years of the 20th century English has established an unprecedentedly powerful position, which has even grown stronger since the more circumspect evaluation of its position by McCrum et al. 1986. The extent of its quantitative and qualitative domination of international geopolitics, science, commerce, communications, technology, politics, and consumer culture is evident in journals like English Today, World Englishes, and English World-Wide. What Crystal aims to do in this book is to capture the big picture, in focus and in perspective, and to assess where English really stands as we enter the 21st century.

English as a Global Language
  • 2nd edition
  • David Crystal
  • Published online:
    05 February 2014
    Print publication:
    29 March 2012
  • David Crystal's classic English as a Global Language considers the history, present status and future of the English language, focusing on its role as the leading international language. English has been deemed the most 'successful' language ever, with 1500 million speakers internationally, presenting a difficult task to those who wish to investigate it in its entirety. However, Crystal explores the subject in a measured but engaging way, always backing up observations with facts and figures. Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this is a book written by an expert both for specialists in the subject and for general readers interested in the English language.

English as a Global Language
  • 2nd edition
  • David Crystal
  • Published online:
    22 September 2009
    Print publication:
    21 July 2003
  • David Crystal, world authority on the English language, presents a lively and factual account of the rise of English as a global language and explores the whys and wherefores of the history, current status and future potential of English as the international language of communication. English has been lauded as the most 'successful' language ever, with 1,500 million speakers worldwide; but Crystal avoids taking sides and tells the story in a measured but engaging way, backed by facts and figures. This new edition of his classic book includes new material (on the vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation of New Englishes), footnotes, new tables, and a full bibliography. There are updates throughout. This is a book for anyone of any nationality concerned with English: teachers, students, language professionals, politicians, general readers and anyone with a love of the language.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
  • 3rd edition
  • David Crystal
  • Published online:
    24 November 2018
    Print publication:
    29 November 2018
  • Now in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated and expanded, with a fresh redesigned layout, and over sixty audio resources to bring language extracts to life, it covers all aspects of the English language including the history of English, with new pages on Shakespeare's vocabulary and pronunciation, updated statistics on global English use that now cover all countries and the future of English in a post-Brexit Europe, regional and social variations, with fresh insights into the growing cultural identities of 'new Englishes', English in everyday use with new sections on gender identities, forensic studies, and 'big data' in corpus linguistics, and digital developments, including the emergence of new online varieties in social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. Packed with brand new colour illustrations, photographs, maps, tables and graphs, this new edition is an essential tool for a new generation of twenty-first-century English language enthusiasts.

  • Crystallised English

  • David Crystal
  • Journal:
    English Today / Volume 11 / Issue 4 / October 1995
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 October 2008, p. 57
    Print publication:
    October 1995
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  • 2 - Language developments in British English

  • Edited by Michael Higgins, University of Strathclyde, Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland, John Storey, University of Sunderland
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture
    Published online:
    28 September 2010
    Print publication:
    19 August 2010, pp 26-41

  • Summary

    Introduction

    Languages do not change at a steady pace. They reflect the developments that take place in the culture of which they form a part. Some events in English history had immediate and dramatic linguistic consequences, such as the huge influence of French on English vocabulary and spelling after the Norman Conquest, or the even greater influx of loan words from European languages during the Renaissance, which virtually doubled the size of the English word stock. At other times, the pace of linguistic change was relatively slow, such as during the eighteenth century, where the desire for order and stability was reflected in the publication of the first major dictionaries, grammars and pronunciation manuals of the language. Today, we are experiencing a new period of rapid and widespread language change, but not for any one particular reason; rather, a range of social, economic and technological factors have combined to make the decades on either side of the millennium linguistically quite extraordinary.

  • Richard Hogg and David Denison (eds.), A history of the English language

  • Ahmad M. Saidat
  • Journal:
    Language in Society / Volume 37 / Issue 1 / February 2008
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 January 2008, p. 156
    Print publication:
    February 2008

  • Richard Hogg and David Denison (eds.), A history of the English language. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 494. Hb $140.

    As languages change and show more flexibility, the need to update histories of languages such as English continues, as the editors of this book, Richard Hogg and David Denison, explain. The editors divide the book into two major parts distributed over nine chapters. One part deals with the fundamental aspects of the internal and structural history of English, and the other with the functions and varieties of the language.

The English Language
  • A Historical Introduction
  • 3rd edition
  • Charles Barber, Joan C. Beal, Philip A. Shaw
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2025
    Print publication:
    31 October 2025
  • A comprehensive yet concise history of the English language, this accessible textbook helps those studying the subject to understand the formation of English. It tells the story of the language from its remote ancestry to the present day, especially the effects of globalisation and the spread of, and subsequent changes to, English. Now in its third edition, it has been substantially revised and updated in light of new research, with an extended chapter on World Englishes, and a completely updated final chapter, which concentrate on changes to English in the twenty-first century. It makes difficult concepts very easy to understand, and the chapters are set out to make the most of the wide range of topics covered, using dozens of familiar texts, including the English of King Alfred, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Addison. It is accompanied by a website with exercises for each chapter, and a range of extra resources.

The English Language
  • A Historical Introduction
  • 2nd edition
  • Charles Barber, Joan C. Beal, Philip A. Shaw
  • Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    26 March 2009
  • Where does today's English come from? This new edition of the bestseller by Charles Barber tells the story of the language from its remote ancestry to the present day. In response to demand from readers, a brand new chapter on late modern English has been added for this edition. Using dozens of familiar texts, including the English of King Alfred, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Addison, the book tells you everything you need to know about the English language, where it came from and where it's going to. This edition adds new material on English as a global language and explains the differences between the main varieties of English around the world. Clear explanations of linguistic ideas and terms make it the ideal introduction for students on courses in English language and linguistics, and for all readers fascinated by language.

A History of the English Language
  • Edited by Richard Hogg, David Denison
  • Published online:
    05 September 2012
    Print publication:
    20 April 2006
  • The history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world language, is a subject of major importance to linguists and historians. In this book, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the English language, outlining its development over fifteen centuries. With an emphasis on more recent periods, every key stage in the history of the language is covered, with full accounts of standardisation, names, the distribution of English in Britain and North America, and its global spread. New historical surveys of the crucial aspects of the language are presented, and historical changes that have affected English are treated as a continuing process, helping to explain the shape of the language today. This complete and up-to-date history of English will be indispensable to all advanced students, scholars and teachers in this prominent field.

  • Language death. David Crystal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 208.

  • R. Bruce Thompson, Jean Berko Gleason
  • Journal:
    Applied Psycholinguistics / Volume 22 / Issue 2 / June 2001
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 September 2001, pp. 269-273

  • “On 4 November 1995 Kasabe existed; on 5 November it did not.” This briefobituary in David Crystal's book (p. 1) does not refer to a creature. It refers to an Africanlanguage, known as Luo, that had been spoken in Cameroon; on the day in question, Bogon, thelast speaker of Kasabe, died, taking his language with him. According to Crystal, half of theworld's current languages are in danger of dying, and the situation is so grave that aninternational and interdisciplinary effort must be mounted to rescue them. Crystal has written thisbook to alert us to the peril and to suggest ways in which our linguistic diversity might bemaintained.

  • 9 - English or Englishes? The Politics of Language and the Language of Politics

  • Toyin Falola, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book:
    The Power of African Cultures
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    15 September 2003, pp 224-249

  • Summary

    “FOLLOW THE RIVER AND FIND THE SEA.”

    —A SWAHILI PROVERB

    The telling has not been easy. One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is one’s own. One has to convey the various shades and omission of a certain thought movement that looks maltreated in an alien language. I use the word “alien,” yet English is not really an alien language to us. It is the language of our intellectual make-up. We are all instinctively bilingual, many of us writing in our own language and in English… . We cannot write like the English. We should not. We cannot write only as Indians. We have grown to look at the large world as part of us. Our method of expression therefore has to be a dialect which will someday prove to be distinctive and colorful as the Irish or the American. Time alone will justify it.

    The focus of this chapter is on the use of the English language and its intersections with culture, elitism, and power. Most of the broad statements should be applicable to the majority of African countries, although the data is drawn from Nigeria. To follow the use of English in Africa is like following a river that may lead to a sea. We are dealing with a situation of linguistic and cultural diversity—while English is the official language, the majority of the population uses a host of other languages to conduct their various daily activities.

    As with the rise of an educated elite, we are dealing with a “new” phenomenon dating only from the mid-nineteenth century. The English language, in its association with the educated elite, developed slowly. For most of the twentieth century it was a language of the minority and it was a powerful vehicle to express nationalism during the colonial era. As the majority of the population was disempowered by the inability to use the English language, they formulated alternative strategies of survival, which included the evolution of a new form of English, the Nigerian pidgin or “rotten English.” Thus, the space became crowded with the use of not one English, but various Englishes.

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