I as a student who is studying English linguistics, I always have been curiouse that “is English a global language?”
Then, I had started to google what the global language is, there are a lot of people who think English is a global language but there was small community who think English is a global language but other language can be empowering by it.
As globalisation has emerged, the need of global language has also been raised because language had been often obstacle to integrate or come together of the worlds’ cultures and economics. Perhaps English is the one which can be lubricant to boost globalisation because a lot of countries depend heavily on English speaking countries such as America and England in terms of economic growth, research, education, resource or technology. That is why English is regarded as the leading language and it seems worldwide. However, the powerful influence of the English language in today’s world tends to be debatable in terms of linguistics. Even though English seems serving as a powerful force to unite people in a democratic way so that people around the world can share ideas and information, English is able to replace or displace other languages at the same time (phillipson 1992).
The language replacement can be defined as a language shift; existence of language changes into another due to lack of speakers in situations where the language of small community faces a much bigger international language like English (Mcarthur 1998). On the other hand, language displacement happens where English has significant impact on a country in terms of computers or entertainment (phillipson 1992).
References
Mcarthur T, 1998, “Language Shift”, Oxford reference Online, OUP, 03/06/2010, http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t29.e689
Phillipson R, 1992, Linguistic Imperialism, Oxford University Press, New York, 03/06/2010, http://books.google.com/books?id=4jVeGWtzQ1oC&dq=language+imperialism+phillipson&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=ko&ei=TIQHTN6PKsyOkQXM673NDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=language%20imperialism%20phillipson&f=false
English as the future lingua franca ? No thankyou !
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bGKfvBG9sM
Notwithstanding the fact that English is an “imperialist” language, Mr Oettinger gives yet more publicity to the fact that English is not a practical proposition, as an international language.
To my mind this is yet another compelling reason to seriously consider Esperanto
Various people in the world receive the business loans from different banks, because this is simple.