ENGLISH LITERATURE Study Guide - Final Guide: Periphrasis, Mixed Language, Masculinity
5 Jul 2022
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Discuss the salient features of english language. Among the different languages of the world, english is the most widely spoken and written language of the world. Today, english occupies the prestigious place of an international language. It is utilized by the largest number of the people of many nations in all the five continents in the world. The reason, which comes to our notice is that, it is not due to the qualities of its own but there are important historical, political and economical reasons for its worldwide popularity. The other obvious reason is that english speaking nations, like england and america have made it prominent. However, no language can become so important unless it has some outstanding and special characteristics for its phenomenal growth and popularity. 1)receptiveness 2) heterogeneousness 3) simplicity of inflexion 4) fixed word order 5) use of. Of course, as jesperson has rightly claimed, it is impossible to characteristics a language in one formula. : receptiveness.
