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Globalisation and the English language
Globalisation has influenced the evolution of the English language the most, according to Dr Maria Leedham, in this short piece based on the transcript of a phone interview.
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Originally published: Friday, 30th August 2019
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Originally published: Friday, 30th August 2019
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- Image 'Reading' - Copyright: Production team
- Image 'Several language books, stacked next to a globe, with headphones, in a library,. ' - Copyright: Dreamstime
- Image 'Morrissey on a classroom wall in Manchester' - ChristianMcCarthy under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license
- Image 'A joint of meat hangs at outside The Pork-Talk Joint in Kabale, Uganda' - Adam Cohn under CC-BY-NC-ND licence under Creative-Commons license
- Image 'The word Exit sits on a wall, waiting to be used in all manner of metaphorical contexts' - Copyright free: Al-Mut
- Image 'Worlds of English' - Copyrighted Image. Used with permission
- Image 'Speech bubbles' - Copyright: Jupiter Images
- Image 'Still from video' - Copyright: The Open University
- Image 'Man playing piano' - Copyright: The Open University
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