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Nov 25, 2016 · The global spread of English as a lingua franca (ELF) can be viewed as providing an unprecedented opportunity for intercultural exchange. However, there have been concerns that the dominance of English may result in linguistic and cultural ‘imperialism’...
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Jan 26, 2019 · English, being the first world language, is said to be the first global lingua franca and it is the most widely used language in the world in international trade, diplomacy, mass entertainment ...
of English worldwide that resulted in English becoming the new lingua franca has many economic, cultural, and social causes, but it is a fact that: “English has been successfully promoted, and has been eagerly adopted in the global linguistic marketplace” (Phillipson, 1992, p. 7).
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- The British Empire
- The Industrial Revolutions
- Wartime Language Spread
By the nineteenth century, Britain was the new title holder for the largest empire in the world. 1. > India 2. > Australia 3. > the West Indies 4. > territories in Africa 5. > territories in the Middle East 6. > British Guiana 7. > Canada 8. > the United States These were among Britain’s conquests, which, all in all, accounted for 400 million peopl...
The industrial revolutions in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain would also help pave the way. Britain was quickly becoming a global leader in science, technology, and invention. The result was the transformation of commercial trends and new English-originated terminology.
World Wars I and II also gave clear indications of English language proliferation. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles, at the conclusion of WWI, was written in English, as well as French. Use of English surged with the WWII victory by English-speaking nations and the subsequent formation of the UN. With Europe in ruins after WWII, the United States and ...
The paper found that English language is a foreign and an imposed one, it has so far been the most expedient language for Nigeria"s politics, administration and lingua franca, has...
Sep 13, 2012 · The key claim, however, is that Quirk’s position is no longer tenable given the unprecedented extent to which English functions as a global lingua franca in contexts from which native speakers are often absent and where standard English as used by native speakers is no longer seen as a necessary, or even desirable, benchmark of effective ...
Nov 21, 2022 · English as a lingua franca and interculturality. With a tradition dating more than 20 years back, a ‘rapidly increasing interest’ (Kecskes, Citation 2019, p. 5) can be identified in relation to English as a lingua franca (henceforth, ELF) defined as uses of English by interlocutors who do not share an L1.
