Book contents
- The Long Journey of English
- The Long Journey of English
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: A View from the Birthplace
- 1 Where It All Started: The Language Which Became English
- 2 The Journey Begins: The First Movement South
- 3 Interlude: A View from the Celtic Island
- 4 Heading West Again: The North Sea Crossing, 400–600
- 5 Anglo-Saxons and Celts in the British Highlands, 600–800
- 6 And Further West: Across the Irish Sea, 800–1200
- 7 Atlantic Crossing: On to the Americas, 1600–1800
- 8 Onwards to the Pacific Shore
- 9 Across the Equator: Into the Southern Hemisphere, 1800–1900
- 10 Some Turning Back: English in Retreat
- 11 Meanwhile … Britain and the British Isles from 1600
- 12 Transcultural Diffusion: The New Native Englishes
- Epilogue: Sixteen Hundred Years On
- References
- Index
- References
12 - Transcultural Diffusion: The New Native Englishes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2023
Book contents
- The Long Journey of English
- The Long Journey of English
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: A View from the Birthplace
- 1 Where It All Started: The Language Which Became English
- 2 The Journey Begins: The First Movement South
- 3 Interlude: A View from the Celtic Island
- 4 Heading West Again: The North Sea Crossing, 400–600
- 5 Anglo-Saxons and Celts in the British Highlands, 600–800
- 6 And Further West: Across the Irish Sea, 800–1200
- 7 Atlantic Crossing: On to the Americas, 1600–1800
- 8 Onwards to the Pacific Shore
- 9 Across the Equator: Into the Southern Hemisphere, 1800–1900
- 10 Some Turning Back: English in Retreat
- 11 Meanwhile … Britain and the British Isles from 1600
- 12 Transcultural Diffusion: The New Native Englishes
- Epilogue: Sixteen Hundred Years On
- References
- Index
- References
Summary
The most recent chapter in the story of the geographical spread of mother-tongue English around the world is a tale of transcultural diffusion, of places in the world which native English has spread to, not through the arrival from elsewhere of native speakers, as in the settlement of Australia, but through the transformation of communities of non-native English speakers into native-speaking communities, through language shift, as in the ongoing case of Singapore.
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- The Long Journey of EnglishA Geographical History of the Language, pp. 156 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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Further Reading
Mesthrie, Rajend (ed.). 2008. Varieties of English, vol. 4: Africa, South and Southeast Asia. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Trudgill, Peter, & Hannah, Jean. 2017. International English: a guide to varieties of English around the world. London: Routledge.Google Scholar