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Globish: How The English Language Became The World's Language (2010)

by Robert McCrum(Favorite Author)

3.2 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0393062554 (ISBN13: 9780393062557)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: No credible linguistics writers will refer to David Crystal as "the linguistic commentator David Crystal". It just shows the author's ignorance in the field of linguistics. David Crystal is THE linguist of the 21st century. And the writer could focus more on globish itself, rather than the reasons behind China's economic development in the 60s in the chapter on globish in China or rather Chinglish. Two stars for getting some facts right.
review 2: A delightful, swift-reading survey of the rise and growth of English from its early history into the lingua franca of the modern world. If McCrum sometimes seems to linger on political and economic history and events, it's simply to underline the language's roots and its efficiency in facilitating the course of human... more history. Myriad examples from all realms of endeavour illuminate his thesis of globalization. less

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