英语的殖民霸权将英语推向了全球语言霸主的地位,奠定了英语全球化的基础。18世纪脱离英国统治走向独立的美国在二战后成为超级大国更是使英语的触角扩张到不能企及的国家和地域,在全新的政治、经济格局中再次确立了英语的世界语言霸权。进入21世纪,世界风云变幻莫测,英语能否继续保持霸主地位,其未来的发展走势如何?在此从英语霸权历史演变入手,对上述问题进行了有益探讨。 English colonial hegemony pushed English to the position of global language hegemony and laid the foundation of English globalization. In the 18th century, the United States, which emerged from the British rule and became independent, became a superpower after World War II. It expanded the tentacles of English into unachievable countries and regions and once again established the world language hegemony of English in the new political and economic pattern. Enter the 21st century, the world is unpredictable, English can continue to maintain hegemony, and its future development trend? Here from the historical evolution of English hegemony to start, the above issues were discussed.