English in a changing world The Second Year Pack English in a changing world Wang zhen wz1122@ Contents 1 Changing English in a Changing World:An Overview 2 English in the Past 3 The Spread of English Beyond Britain 4 Socal varieties of English 5 Trade Within and Across Language Barriers 6 Changing English since the Sencond World War 7 Emerging "New Englishes" : A Focus for Debate 8 English in a Shrinking World Changing Eglish in a Changing World :An Overview Unit One Unit One At the end of this unit,you should be able to do the following things,or do them better than you can now explain why languages change as people change recognise and describe examples of change understand some of the special English vocabulary used in talking about language explain what is meant by varieties of English Unit One Changing English in a Changing World: An Overview Difficult Points: Differences among languages, dialects, and accents Activity 1 Language Change and Language Use Task 1 1. Languages change with time; 2. The number of languages in the world is 4000-5000; 3. No one can give a more exact number because (a) the number depends on what counts as a dialect and what counts as a language; (b) some languages have disappeared, and we know nothing about them; 4. When we speak of languages as living or dead, we use a metaphor (暗喻). Task 2 Finding out How Language Changes in the Life of an Individual Person Idiolect – your own individual language Task 3 Analysing the Meaning of “Living” and “Dead” Language Tim doesn’t like learning Latin because – 1 there is too much homework to do 2 it is hard to remember all the new vocabulary 3 there are no speakers of Latin to talk to 4 there seem to be no interesting things to read in Latin
