英语的不断国际化和本土化在世界各地已引发出日益尖锐的矛盾。对世界诸英语和文化移入等问题的研究自七十年代末以来已成为国际语言学界的一项重要课题。本文对这一新兴领域的形成和发展作了扼要介绍,并对英语的传播在社会、文化、语言、认知和教育等层面给世界各国所造成的冲击作了详细阐述和评析。 The constant internationalization and localization of English have caused increasingly sharp contradictions all over the world. Since the late 1970s, the study of the world’s English and cultural integration has become an important topic in the field of international linguistics. This article briefly introduces the formation and development of this emerging field and elaborates and comments on the impact that the spread of English has exerted on the countries in the world in terms of social, cultural, linguistic, cognitive and educational aspects.