Robert Mccrum

Globish: How English Became the World's Language (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating study not only of the roots and growth of our own language but of its future.Bloomsbury Review

It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. In this provocative new look at the course of empire, Robert McCrum shows how the language of the Anglo-American imperium has become the world's lingua franca. In the twenty-first century, writes the author, English + Microsoft = Globish.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393080926
• Artikelnr.: 59591132

Autorenporträt

Robert McCrum is the associate editor of The Observer and lives in London with his wife, Sarah Lyall. His books include the bestselling The Story of English, My Year Off, Wodehouse: A Life, and Globish.