[PDF.50wd] The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel

The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel

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 | #1075203 in Books |  2010-11-23 |  2010-11-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.53 x1.22 x6.44l,1.14 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.| The Past, Present & Future of the English Language|By S. Pactor|You might consider Ostler a popularizer of the field of Socio-Linguistics. His new book, published in the US on November 23rd, is an extended essay on the role of English as a Lingua Franca in the modern World. Having recently read the author's earlier book Empires of the Word, I recognized both the theme and s|From Publishers Weekly|The days of English as the all-conquering international language of science, commerce, and hip-hop are numbered, according to this dense philological treatise. Linguist Ostler (Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin) recaps the rise and fall o

English is the world's lingua franca-the most widely spoken language in human history. And yet, as historian and linguist Nicholas Ostler persuasively argues, English will not only be displaced as the world's language in the not-distant future, it will be the last lingua franca, not replaced by another.
Empire, commerce, and religion have been the primary raisons d'etre for lingua francas--Greek, Latin, Arabic have all held the position--and Ostler explores each th...

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