“ David Graddol’s English Next … [is] one of the most important discussions of English in the last 20 years….
Graddol’s study explores recent trends in the use of English, in order to develop a sense of how the language may change over the next two generations. Its main contention is that, contrary to popular belief, the current global position of English is far from unassailable. …
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… English’s centre of gravity has moved. The language’s future seems likely to be shaped not so much in Britain or America as in China and India by a burgeoning middle class of urban workers.
Graddol’s study explores recent trends in the use of English, in order to develop a sense of how the language may change over the next two generations. Its main contention is that, contrary to popular belief, the current global position of English is far from unassailable. …
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… English’s centre of gravity has moved. The language’s future seems likely to be shaped not so much in Britain or America as in China and India by a burgeoning middle class of urban workers.
