Chapter 1

1.1 English as a global language

1. the British Empire
2. Economic factors
3. Fashion

1.2 varieties of English

1. Social influences
2. Historical Influences
3. Regional influences

KEY CONCEPTS

• culture
• context
• lingua franca
• global village
• (linguistic) convergence
• cultural bias
• instrumental motivation
• integrative motivation
• bilingualism
• language borrowing
• loanwords
• jargon
• idiolect
• (linguistic) divergence
• accent
• dialect
• register
• colloquialism
• linguistic determinism
• Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
• pidgins
• code-switching
• vernacular
• language death
• linguistic imperialism