Standard English

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language

Summary
English has spread all over the world unprecedentedly. There are two chief issues to deal with responsibilities; internationalism and identity. The former is to promote English to access to knowledge of broader world. The latter is to preserve the uniqueness and to establish the existence.

New Word
-It is against all precedent.
-Views of the countryside are dull and anonymous.
-Passive investor fared better last year.

My Idea
According to the book, there are dozens of definitions about Standard English. The author hypothesizes that Standard English of an English-speaking country is a minority variety which supports most prestige and is most widely understood. I don’t understand well what Standard English is.