Outline Flashcards
1
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The expansion of internet
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In the 20th century, the far reaching voice of English language broadcast media contributed to the presence of English, if not as a first language the influence on people’s lives across the globe
2
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Tom McArther ‘Circle of World English’ (1987)
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moves outward from a central concept of a ‘world standard English’ into eight main regions each with a main standard English variety and many non-standard derivative forms
3
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Similar to dialect levelling
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the expansion of English across the world may well lead to the extinction of many languages of the roughly 6,000 in current use e.g. the emergence of uptalk applied in a declarative sentence (Australian English)
