English Dominance

The formation of English dominance has gone through a long time. Just as Robert of Gloucester said before, English is a language that humble people spoke 1300 years ago. In the following 200 years, the development of English has undergone a period of Old English, the period of French influence, and the period of medieval English. 1500 years later, modern English was taking shape, which mainly refers to stable spelling, pronunciation, and meaning. However, English emerged as the international language after the 19th century. The main reasons are as follows: Firstly, from a macroscopic view, the dominance of English is not precipitated by the language itself, so the rise of English dominance in international communication is not solely due to the dominance of the language itself. Just as Professor Jean Aitchison in Oxford pointed out, the success of a language has much to do with the power of the people who use it but has little to do with internal features of the language. It is very obvious in the case of English.