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Chapter 1: An English-Speaking World (9-45)

Chapter 1: An English-Speaking World (9-45). An English-Speaking World. The Story of English. By Don L. F. Nilsen Based on The Story of English By Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil and William Cran (Penguin, 2003).

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Chapter 1: An English-Speaking World (9-45)

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  1. Chapter 1: An English-Speaking World (9-45) An English-Speaking World 19

  2. The Story of English By Don L. F. Nilsen Based on The Story of English By Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil and William Cran (Penguin, 2003) 19

  3. English, ESL or EFL is Spoken by about ½ of the People in the World ( about 2 Billion People) (McCrum 24/50) 19

  4. English as a Global Language • ¾ of the World’s Mail • ½ of the World’s technical & scientific journals • ½ of all newspapers • 80 % of the information in computers • All International Air Pilots • All International Sea Captains • Many movies, songs, and much business • ½ of European business deals • 7 of the Largest TV Broadcasters (CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, CBC, CNN, C-Span) • TV Televangelism of Christianity (McCrum 10) 19

  5. Varieties of Global English, each with its Own Peculiar Flavor • Deutschlish • Franglish (la langue du Coca-Cola) • Indian English • Japlish (man-shon vs. mai-homu, basaburo, aisu-kurimu, mai-com [my computer]) • Russlish • Spanglish (McNeal 10, 38-39) 19

  6. La Langue du Coca-Cola • In France, • hot money  capitaux fébariles • Jumbo jet  gros porteur • Fast food  prêt-à-manger • In Canada, Loi 101 : • English billboards, posters and storefronts are banned. Many students are not allowed to attend English-language schools. (McCrum 39-40) 19

  7. Competing Global Languages • Arabic • Russian (before the breakup of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe) • Mandarin • Spanish • French 19

  8. Education Act of 1870: RP • Cockney (Cock’s Egg) • RP (Received Pronunciation) • Posh (Portside Out Starboard Home) • (McCrum 13-21) 19

  9. World War II (McCrum 23) • GI Bases in England, Italy, France, Germany • GI Language was vivid, profane & abbreviated: 19

  10. Pin-Ups and Yank Magazine • Every issue of Yank Magazine featured a pin-up to remind soldiers of the girls back home. • A pin-up of Rita Hayworth is said to have been taped to Fat Boy, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. • Compare this with the movie Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. 19

  11. Atomic-Bomb Words (McCrum 24) 19

  12. Coca-Colonialism (McCrum 24) 19

  13. Korean and Vietnam Wars (McCrum 25-26) 19

  14. David Ofgor, Attaché to the US Embassy in Phnom Penh: • Talking to journalists: • “You always write it’s bombing, bombing, bombing. It’s not bombing. It’s air support.” (McCrum 27) 19

  15. Regional Dialects (McCrum 27-29) • Franklin D. Roosevelt (Eastern Money) • Harry Truman (Twangy Missouran) • Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon & Gerald Ford (American Midwest) • Lyndon Johnson (Southern) • Ronald Reagan & Dan Rather (Network Standard) • Kennedy Family (New England) • George W. Bush (Texas) 19

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  17. Silicon Valley Words (California) (McCrum 30) 19

  18. British vs. American Global English • bird, bobby, bonnet, boot, drawing pins, flat, lift, lorry, mate, nappy, petrol, pram, sweets, torch, trunk call • girl, cop, hood, trunk, thumb tacks, apartment, elevator, truck, buddy, diaper, gas, stroller, candy, flashlight, long-distance call • colour/color, theater/theatre, tyre/tire • advertisement, laboratory, secretary • (McCrum 32) 19

  19. !Disadvantages of English as a Global Language • /š/  shoe, sugar, issue, mansion, mission, nation, suspicion, ocean, conscious, chaperon, schist, fuchsia, pshaw (spelled 13 ways). • <sh> <ch> <ph> <th> <gh> • Full, reduced, zero grades of consonants • Long, Short, -r, schwa, and zero grades of vowels • 15 different vowel phonemes • <c> <g> <q> <s> (/s/ /š/ /z/ /ž/) <x> • (McCrum 42) 19

  20. !!Advantages of English as a Global Language • Natural Gender, not Grammatical Gender • Simplified Word Endings resulting in greater flexibility (N  V, etc.) • Teeming Vocabulary (80 % is not Anglo-Saxon) but rather: Arabic, Celtic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Scandinavian, Spanish, etc. (McCrum 43) 19

  21. !!!Nilsen PowerPoints • “Foreign Words in English” • “Global English” • Romance and Germanic Words in English” 19

  22. References: Kachru, Braj B. Models of English for the Third World: White Man’s Linguistic Burden or Language Pragmatics?. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 1991. Kachru, Braj B. The Other Tongue: The Spread of English and Issues of Intelligibility. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1982. McCrum, Robert, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil. The Story of English. New York, NY: Penguin, 1986. (source of map citations) McCrum, Robert, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil. The Story of English: Third Revised Edition. New York, NY: Penguin, 2003. (source of text citations) 19

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