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Global Englishes
The study of global English
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name seven key English speaking nations | USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and India |
| How many native speakers and people who use it as a second language speak English? | 400 million |
| What is the overall percentage of people that can speak English out of the world's population? | 20% |
| Define "Bilingual" | Speakers that have a broad vocabulary in multiple different languages |
| What is "Lingua Franca"? | A term for a common language used to facilitate global relations such as trade, commerce, industry, science, art etc. |
| How many sovereign nations is English an official language? | 65 |
| Which language in the 17th and 18th century was considered the main "lingua franca" before English? | French |
| Between 1800 and 1945 why was Britain the wealthiest and most influential country on Earth? | Because they experienced the Industrial Revolution much sooner than everyone else |
| When England colonised the New World, what two things did they do? | They colonised a large southern landmass and annexed huge portions of the world as part of the British Empire |
| Unfortunately after the war, what happened? | Germany had a lot more cultural clout than the UK due to the corruption of the British Empire |
| Which country became a superpower and compensated for the UK's decline after World War 2? | USA |
| What is "Soft Power"? | Cultural influence that is harder to measure (trust in diplomats) |
| What is "Hard Power"? | Militaristic features (army factors) |
| What four things is English the language of? | Richest economy, best universities, biggest media producers and wealthy businesses |
| What is a "Pidgin"? | A type of localised lingua franca that derives from a need to communicate between people of different languages in a particular location |
| What are pidgins for? | Transactional reasons |
| What is a "Creole"? | A pidgin learnt as a first language by babies |
| What is the history of Jamaican patois? | In 1655, during the slave trade, slaves from Jamaica and West Africa tried to imitate English speaking slave masters under harsh conditions |
| What two things did Jamaican patois had to do in order to be a creole language? | Complexity and sufficiency |
| What three things did West African languages provide Jamaican patois with? | Vocabulary, grammar and phonology |
| What year did Jamaican patois become popular in the UK? | 1960s |
| What caused Jamaican patois to weave its way into urban areas in the UK? | The influx of immigration from the Caribbean |
| What three other languages feed into Multicultural London English? | Indian, Pakistani and Chinese |
| What are people's attitudes towards pidgins? | Usually seen as unimportant and certainly lacking prestige by many |
| What are people's attitudes towards creoles? | Slightly better regarded than pidgins, though there is a tendency for them to not be seen as proper languages, since they are not associated with a substantial body of literature |
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