梅尔文·布拉格 (Melvyn Bragg) 带你走遍大不列颠,了解英语的冒险历程——公元前500年的一门小众日耳曼方言,到底是如何一步步成长为当今毋庸置疑的世界语言。他将根据不同词语被引进英语的大致时期来向我们讲解它们的出处和拼写。
1、语言的诞生 (Birth of a Language)
2、不登大雅之堂 (English Goes Underground)
3、圣经语言之争 (The Battle for the Language of the Bible)
4、此世、此国、此英 (This Earth, This Realm, This England)
5、英语在美洲 (English in America)
6、谈吐得体 (Speaking Proper)
7、帝国的语言 (The Language of Empire)
8、南腔北调皆英语 (Many Tongues Called English, One World Language)
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