《英语的变迁--一种语言多种声音》由斯瓦特维克、种奇编著，本书以历史发展为线索，始终紧扣英语自形成伊始便不断呈现出的在语言变体意义上的多元特征，全面讨论英语的过去、现状及未来发展趋势，指出这一语言将以不同方言共存为本质特征，成为全球众多族群真正共有的世界语言，图书的适用对象：英语专业研究生、学者。

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations and Special Symbols

Preface

1 English - the Working Tongue of the Global Village

English is spoken in circles

The Inner Circle

The Outer Circle

The Expanding Circle

Do we need a world language？

Why English？

One or two explanations

         Part I History of an Island Language

2 The First 500 Years

Roman Britain

Ships are sighted with English in embryo on board

Christianity in the Isles

The Viking age

What was Old English like？

The Lord's Prayer

Beowulf

Two translations into Modern English

1066 and All That

Middle English

An influx of French words

Grammatical endings disappear

 Geoffrey Chaucer and William Caxton

4 Modern English in the Making

The Three 'Rs' - Renaissance， Reformation， Restoration

 English and Latin

The Elizabethan period

Shakespeare's language

The King James Bible - a milestone in the history of English

Restoration and reaction

English gains a new domain - the language of science

'Dictionary Johnson'

The 'End of History'？

Codification of the standard language

Part II The Spread of English around the World

5 English Goes to the New World

English takes root in America

The Pilgrim Fathers

The first Americanisms

Linguistic variety and uniformity in the United States

The American Revolution

The frontier moves further west

New Americans

English goes to Canada

Cartier and Canada

Loyalists' influence.

Canadian English

English Transplanted

Australia: the First Fleet

Kangaroo， koala， kookaburra become English

Australian English

New Zealand - Aotearoa

New Zealand English

English in Africa - the Inner Circle

English comes to South Africa

English in Africa - the Outer Circle

English in South Asia

'The jewel in the crown'

English in Southeast Asia

New Englishes

English Varieties in the British Isles

RP (Received Pronunciation)

Cockney

Estuary English