本文首先试图从动因与模式两个角度描述语言社会发展的基本规律,指出人文及国力因素对语言的宏观发展所起的重要作用并剖析了分化与融合这两种语言发展的主要方向;在此基础上,文章对当今世界英语的现状进行了分析,认为无论从外部环境还是语言本身来看英语都具有成为国际通用语言的条件;最后,文章对英语发展的前景作出了预测。 This paper first attempts to describe the basic laws of social development of language from the perspectives of motivation and mode, and points out the important role played by human and national factors in the development of language and analyzes the main directions for the development of the two languages, differentiation and integration. Based on the analysis of the current situation of English in the world today, the article holds that English is an international universal language both in terms of the external environment and the language itself. Finally, the article forecasts the prospects of English development.