“新经典”系列 语言学类 -- 英语发展史Modern_English_and_the_Future_of_English.ppt

ModernEnglishandtheFutureofEnglish

Contents:1.Overview2.BriefTimeline3.LinguisticsandDictionaryPublication4.VocabularyChange5.EducationReform6.EnglishLiterature7.BibleTranslation8.OtherFactorsthathavePromotedEnglish9.TheFutureofEnglish

1Overview

OverviewTheIndustrialRevolutionandbeyond.ClassicalTemperamentandRomanticTemperament.LanguageDevelopment.EnglishUsageControversy.BritishEmpireandVictorianLiterature.TheSpreadofEnglishasAnInternationalLanguageandWorldEnglishes.

2BriefTimeline

1805BattleofTrafalgar./WilliamHazlittpublishedAnEssayonthePrinciplesofHumanAction.1807TheslavetradewasabolishedintheUK.1811BritishoccupiedJava.1812WarbetweentheUSandBritain(1812-1814)./RasmusRaskmadeobservationsaboutthelinkbetweenGermaniclanguagesandtheotherancientlanguages.1813JaneAusten’sPrideandPrejudicewaspublished.WilliamHazlitt(1788-1870)TrafalgarSquare,LondonRasmusRask(1787-1832)

1814JaneAustenpublishedMansfieldPark.1815ThebattleofWaterloo.1817DavidRicardopublishedPrinciplesofPoliticalEconomyandTaxation.1819BritishsettlementestablishedinSingapore.1820-1910AlmostfivemillionIrishleftIreland.1822Grimm’slawcodified./EnglishbecametheofficiallanguageoftheEasternCapeofSouthAfrica.DavidRicardo(1772-1823)TheBattleofWaterlooJakobGrimm(1785-1863)SingaporeEasternCapeofSouthAfrica

1824BritishtookRangoon,Burma(Myanmar).1825Theworld’sfirstpublicpassengerrailwayopened.1830Liverpool-Manchesterrailwayopened.1832TheGreatReformActwaspassed./BritainoccupiedtheFalklandIslands.1833SlaverywasabolishedthroughouttheBritishEmpire.1835ThomasMacaulay’sMinutewasaccepted.ThomasMacaulay(1800-1859)Rangoon,BurmaFalklandIslandsTheGreatReformAct

1836CharlesRichardson’sANewDictionaryoftheEnglishLanguageappeared.1837WilliamIVdied,succeededbyhisniece,Victoria(r.1837-1901).Population