TAILIEUCHUNG - Các biến thể của tiếng anh part 12

INTERNATIONAL VARIETIES OF ENGLISH spoken language is diverging, the formal written language shows (as yet) little evidence of such divergence. Indeed, one of the many advantages claimed for English is that you can sit down and read a work written in Canada or Australia or Tyneside wherever in the English-speaking world you come from. The differences of grammar between varieties are (as we have seen in Chapter 4) very slight. Latin as a written language lasted virtually into the seventeenth century in Europe, and it could be that English as a written language will outlast spoken English as an international medium. | 02 pages 001-136 6 8 02 1 26 pm Pag h 102 102 INTERNATIONAL VARIETIES OF ENGLISH spoken language is diverging the formal written language shows as yet little evidence of such divergence. Indeed one of the many advantages claimed for English is that you can sit down and read a work written in Canada or Australia or Tyneside wherever in the English-speaking world you come from. The differences of grammar between varieties are as we have seen in Chapter 4 very slight. Latin as a written language lasted virtually into the seventeenth century in Europe and it could be that English as a written language will outlast spoken English as an international medium of communication. Another possibility though is that international communication will remain a powerful enough force to prevent varieties of English diverging too far from each other and thus slow down if not prevent the divergent pressures. One thing remains certain prediction is a very uncertain business. We can see the forces massed to cause the break-up of English and we can see the centripetal forces which might attempt to withstand that attack. Precisely what the outcome will be and over what period is impossible to predict. An overwhelming change in global politics could disrupt the system so much that all our predictions could become invalid. But we will not be around in 500 years to see how our predictions have fared we can only hope that historians of that future time will be understanding of our inability to guess how things would turn out and why. Exercises 1. Draw a time line showing settlement independence and markers of independent language such as the first local dictionaries for the various colonies discussed in this book. Discuss what it shows. 2. The following is taken from a letter to the editor of the New Zealand Listener The fact is that American English has evolved into a form that is different from British English both in vocabulary and pronunciation but which is perfectly acceptable. There is

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