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All you need to know about Beijing 2022. Two Olympics and two very different Chinas. To be chosen as a spectator for these Olympic events, you are most likely to be from a Communist Party ...
Feb 20, 2024 · Languages At The Beijing 2022 Olympics. It's a curious mix of languages at the Olympics, especially when you consider the host nation having to follow the Olympic charter and have...
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- Jie Zhang, Language Policy and Planning For The Modern Olympic Games
A new book by our executive board member Dr Zhang Jie traces the complexities of this paradox: its history, its lived experience, and its future. Published by de Gruyter under the title Language Policy and Planning for the Modern Olympic Games, the book takes the 2008 Beijing Olympics as its focal point to show how English became central to this me...
To regain its rightful place among the great civilizations and powers had been China’s aspiration ever since the humiliations of the 19th and early 20th century. The 2008 Beijing Olympics provided the perfect opportunity to showcase what had been achieved. Therefore, China invested significant resources into its Olympic bid. This included linguisti...
However, Zhang Jie digs deeper. She not only shows language planning and management for the Beijing Olympics in exquisite detail but also how individuals experienced their transformation into English speakers and global citizens. Most threw themselves dutifully into the effort to improve their English but they were not motivated by a desire for Eng...
Having successfully conducted the Beijing Olympics and continuing its economic and geopolitical rise, language policy and planning have been reevaluated. As China now gets ready to host the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed the meaning of “globalisation,” as we have traced here in the Language on the Move COVID...
To find out more about Jie Zhang’s new book Language Policy and Planning for the Modern Olympic Games head over to the publisher’s website. To order the book and receive a 20% discount, click on the De Gruyter order page. This blog post is a slightly revised version of the book’s preface: Piller, Ingrid. (2021). Preface: The paradox of the concomit...
- Ingrid Piller
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Now, this latest Winter Olympics are scheduled to include a record 109 events over 15 disciplines in seven sports - biathlon, bobsledding, curling, ice hockey, luge, skating and skiing. A ...
Jul 26, 2021 · In fact, Beijing was short of advanced English speakers, multilingual speakers, and speakers of foreign languages other than English during the 2008 Summer Olympics. Since Beijing 2008, China has been ramping up its multilingual capabilities beyond English and the types of foreign language programs in China’s higher education have increased ...
Apr 28, 2015 · Any announcement or proclamation at the Olympic Games are in three languages: English, French, and the host nation. If the host nation speaks French or English, as we witnessed in London 2012, only two languages are used. Why is that? Based on the top 12 languages spoken in the world, surely we should be using Chinese or Hindi?
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