英語的變遷：一種語言，多種聲音（簡體書）

《英語的變遷:一種語言,多種聲音(英文版)》以歷史發展為線索，始終緊扣英語自形成伊始便不斷呈現出的在語言變體意義上的多元特征，全面討論英語的過去、現狀及未來發展趨勢，指出這一語言將以不同方言共存為本質特征，成為全球眾多族群真正共有的世界語言。圖書的適用對象：英語專業研究生、學者。

作者：（瑞典）斯瓦特維克（Jan Svartvik） （英國）利奇（Geoffrey Leech）

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations and Special Symbols
Preface
1 English - the WorkingTongue of the Global Village
English is spoken in circles
The Inner Circle
The Outer Circle
The Expanding Circle
Do we need a world language?
Why English?
One or two explanations
Part I History of an Island Language

2 The First 500 Years
Roman Britain
Ships are sighted with English in embryo on board
Christianity in the Isles
The Viking age
What was Old English like?
The Lords Prayer
Beowulf
Two translations into Modern English

3 1066 and All That
Middle English
An influx of French words
Grammatical endings disappear
Geoffrey Chaucer and William Caxton
Modern English in the Making
The Three Rs - Renaissance, Reformation, Restoration
English and Latin
The Elizabethan period
Shakespeares language
The King James Bible——a milestone in the history of English
Restoration and reaction
English gains a new domain——the language of science
Dictionary Johnson
The End of History?
Codification of the standard language

Part II The Spread of English around the World
5 English Goes to the New World
English takes root in America
The Pilgrim Fathers
The first Americanisms
Linguistic variety and unirmity in the United States
The American Revolution
The frontier moves further west
New Americans
English goes to Canada
Cartier and Canada
Loyalistsinfluence
Canadian English

6 English Transplanted
Australia：the First Fleet
Kangaroo，koala，kookaburra become English
Australian English
New Zealand．Aotearoa
New Zealand English
English in Africa——the Inner Circle
English comes to South Africa
English in Africa．．the 0uter Circle
English in South Asia
The jewel in the crown
English in Southeast Asia
New Englishes

7 English Varieties in the British Isles
RP(Received Pronunciation)
Cockney
Estuary English
……

8 American and British English
9 From Caribbean English to Creole
Part III A Changing Language in Changing Times
10 The Standard Language Today
11 Linguistic Change in Progress:Back to the Inner Circle
12 English into the Future
Notes:Comments and References
References
Index of People
Index of Topics
Pronunciation