LSY volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

1985 Language in society  
English Today is a new international magazine in English about English. It has come into existence quite simply because the language that it will describe now serves well over 700 million people worldwide. In four issues per year English Today will focus on the uses and users of the language, on its unities and its diversities, on those who have been born into it and those who have otherwise acquired it, on its perceived virtues and vices, as well as on its literatures, its linguistics, its
more » ... es, its past, its present and its possible futures. To do this English Today will publish fact, opinion, humo(u)r and commentary ranging from Cockney to Creole, from standards and slang to Scouse and Spanglish, from General American to general electronic. In addition, it will invite frank assessments of how English relates nowadays to other languages and they to it, and of how English-users handle-or fail to handle-the stresses and strains of language and cultural politics. The satisfactions and the frustrations of English round the world will get equal space. English Today will draw on a range of contributors to demonstrateboth in themselves and in what they write-that the English language has become an international resource as valuable and as useful as currencies, computers and oil. English Today will prove stimulating and vital reading for • teachers and students of English as a first or second language; linguists • writers; journalists; broadcasters • or anyone interested in, concerned with, or fascinated by the worldwide English
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