English and English Community 英语与英语群体.docx

English and English Community 英语与英语群体否认There is no denying that1?English is a useful language. The people who speak English 社区除了…以外today make up the largest speech community in the world with the exception of speakers 最初部落北欧迁入of Chinese. Originally they were small tribes of people from northern Europe who settled in 相似最后England. Their languages became more and more similar to each other. Finally, the 均匀性language had enough uniformity2?to be used by all speakers in England. The people were united into a speech community through their shared language.A speech community is similar to other kinds of communities. The people who make 并肩up the community share a common language. Often they live side by side, as they do in 四邻构成完整的aneighborhood, a village, or a city. More often they form a whole country. National 边界boundaries, however, are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community. A speech community is any group of people who speak the same language no matter where they happen to live.We may say that anyone who speaks English belongs to the English speech 为了方便起见分类community. For convenience3, we may classify the speakers into two groups: one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other in which the speakers learn 为了…目的贸易等等English as a second language for the purpose of education, commerce, and so on.担任…交替的活动English serves as an alternative language in several areas of public activity for the 使用many nations of the world which employ it as an international second language.4?English 采用贸易has been adoptedas the language of air traffic, commerce, as well as international 外交而且…大多数出版材料diplomacy. Moreover, English is the language of the majority of published materials in the 依靠沉重地world so that education has come to rely heavily on an understanding of English.扩充视力扩大Learning a second language extends ones vision and expands the mind. The history 文学and literature of a second language record the real and fictional lives of people and their 文化cult