Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria helped Britain gain hegemony over other European powers in the 16th-17th centuries through wars, trade, and building the British Empire. British colonization of North America in the 17th century established British English as the basis for American English, though it diverged due to geographical and historical conditions in the new land. Features that developed American English included retaining remnants of 17th century British English, coining new words and adopting loanwords, and Noah Webster's efforts to standardize spelling and develop it as a distinct form of English.
2. Table of contents - What is Hegemony? - British got Hegemony - Queen Elizabeth - Queen Victoria - The British Commonwealth of Nations - The Historical Background of America English - 4 Features in the Development of America English - Unity - The remnants of 17C BE in AE - Coined words and loanwords - The effort for development of AE - Conclusion
3. 1) What is Hegemony the political, economic, ideological or cultural power exerted by a dominant group over other groups Hegemony, or the hegemon, dictates the politics of the hegemony's constituent subordinate states via cultural imperialism — the imposition of its way of life, i.e. its language (the imperial lingua franca) and bureaucracies (social, economic, educational, governing), to make formal its dominance
4. 2) British got hegemony Queen Elizabeth - Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death -Wars and overseas trade -The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess - Defeating Spanish Armada
7. 2) British got hegemony Sir Francis Drake English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, a renowned pirate, and a politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588(Calais)
8. 2) British got hegemony The battle of Calais On the night of 29 July(1588), along with Howard, Drake organised fire-ships, causing the majority of the Spanish captains to break formation and sail out of Calais into the open sea. Gaining the independence of Netherlands Breaking the Spanish Armada Giving hegemony to England
9. 2) British got hegemony East India Company Early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China. The oldest among several similarly formed European East India Companies, the Company was granted an English Royal Charter, under the name Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies, by Elizabeth I on 31 December 1600.
11. 2) British got hegemony Queen Victoria the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India. Victorian era, it was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
13. 3) The British Commonwealth of Nations The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organization of fifty-three independent member states. All but two (Mozambique and Rwanda) of these countries were formerly part of the British Empire, out of which it developed. They still follow the Queen
14. 3) The British Commonwealth of Nations 2.4 billion watch Prince William`s wedding
15. The Historical Background of America English 17C Migration British English Geographical, Historical Conditions