Elena Agathokleous 
Pilgrim Fathers emigrating to America. Linguistic consequences 

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject American Studies — Linguistics, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: English language is today the global language, the language of politics all over the world, the travel language that allows international mobility, the language of advertising that is present in every country, the working language of many professions and especially the tourism industry (Crystal 2003:2). Many factors contributed to the expansion of the English language since it came in the British Isles in the fifth century from Northern Europe.

Pilgrim Fathers’ emigration was one of the first successful emigrations to the New World that paved the road for others to follow, leading this way to the birth of American English, the variety of English that established the status of the English language as a global language especially after America ascended as the world’s largest economic power.