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Jan 18, 2022 · English accounts for 60 percent of world internet content and is the lingua franca of pop culture and the global economy. All 100 of the world’s most influential science journals publish in English.
- The Benefits of A Phonetic Alphabet
- Global English
- Resistance to English as A Lingua Franca
Moreover,English is based on a phonetic alphabet. That is, the written characters correspond to particular sounds. This is a great advantage and makes writing and pronouncing words simple, because there are only so many sounds that can be represented by the letters. It limits the number of characters that comprise the writing system. The same canno...
These features of English played a critical role in facilitating the spread of the language across every continent. While Mandarin Chinese certainly can boast more fluent speakers than English, its influence is far more constricted to a particular geographic area. The reach of English, meanwhile, is simply unmatched. It is an official language in 5...
While we English speakers may flatter ourselves by thinking that English has become the lingua franca because of some innate superiority of the language, this is hardly the case. Speakers of other languages have done so becauseit is convenient, advantageous, and expedient to have a working knowledge of English. The residual historical legacy of the...
The English language didn’t seal its current status as the world’s common language until the late 1980s. Let’s explore the steps that led up to the adoption of a new international language. Taking a look at the predecessors of English as a lingua franca (ELF), we will begin to explore and have an idea of how such a change comes about in ...
Apr 3, 2024 · Historically, the essential factor for the establishment of a global language is that it is spoken by those who wield power. Latin was the lingua franca of its time, although it was only ever a minority language within the Roman Empire as a whole. Crucially, though, it was the language of the powerful leaders and administrators and of the Roman ...
Apr 6, 2018 · There are other areas where English serves largely as a lingua franca in the world. The suppl y of international news and international sports are two (see Graddol, 1997, 2006).
- Jacques Melitz
Apr 22, 2020 · The phenomenon of English as a lingua franca (ELF), in other words English used among speakers who have different first language backgrounds, has existed since the British began to colonize parts of Asia and Africa in the late 16th century. However, it is only during the past thirty years that ELF has spread to the rest of the world, seen a ...
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Jan 31, 2019 · A comprehensive overview of English as a lingua franca research - Jennifer Jenkins, Will Baker & Martin Dewey, The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca. London & New York: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xix + 620. Hardback £165/$240, ISBN 978-1-13885-532-8. - Volume 35 Issue 4
