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| english language is universal: English as a Global Language David Crystal, 2012-03-29 Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language. |
| english language is universal: The Fall of Language in the Age of English Minae Mizumura, 2015-01-06 Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in the globalized world of the Internet, English is fast becoming the sole common language of humanity. The process is unstoppable, and striving for total language equality is delusional—and yet, particular kinds of knowledge can be gained only through writings in specific languages. Mizumura calls these writings texts and their ultimate form literature. Only through literature and, more fundamentally, through the diverse languages that give birth to a variety of literatures, can we nurture and enrich humanity. Incorporating her own experiences as a writer and a lover of language and embedding a parallel history of Japanese, Mizumura offers an intimate look at the phenomena of individual and national expression. |
| english language is universal: Bridge of Words Esther Schor, 2016-10-04 A history of Esperanto, the utopian universal language invented in 1887-- |
| english language is universal: The Rise of English Rosemary C. Salomone, 2022 A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of languageSpoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca- - its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric riseof English has many obvious benefits to communication. Tourists can travel abroad with greater ease. Political leaders can directly engage their counterparts. Researchers can collaborate with foreign colleagues. Business interests can flourish in the global economy.But the rise of English has very real downsides as well. In Europe, imperatives of political integration and job mobility compete with pride in national language and heritage. In the United States and England, English isolates us from the cultural and economic benefits of speaking other languages.And in countries like India, South Africa, Morocco, and Rwanda, it has stratified society along lines of English proficiency.In The Rise of English, Rosemary Salomone offers a commanding view of the unprecedented spread of English and the far-reaching effects it has on global and local politics, economics, media, education, and business. From the inner workings of the European Union to linguistic battles over influence inAfrica, Salomone draws on a wealth of research to tell the complex story of English - and, ultimately, to argue for English not as a force for domination but as a core component of multilingualism and the transcendence of linguistic and cultural borders. |
| english language is universal: Does Science Need a Global Language? Scott L. Montgomery, 2013-05-06 In early 2012, the global scientific community erupted with news that the elusive Higgs boson had likely been found, providing potent validation for the Standard Model of how the universe works. Scientists from more than one hundred countries contributed to this discovery—proving, beyond any doubt, that a new era in science had arrived, an era of multinationalism and cooperative reach. Globalization, the Internet, and digital technology all play a role in making this new era possible, but something more fundamental is also at work. In all scientific endeavors lies the ancient drive for sharing ideas and knowledge, and now this can be accomplished in a single tongue— English. But is this a good thing? In Does Science Need a Global Language?, Scott L. Montgomery seeks to answer this question by investigating the phenomenon of global English in science, how and why it came about, the forms in which it appears, what advantages and disadvantages it brings, and what its future might be. He also examines the consequences of a global tongue, considering especially emerging and developing nations, where research is still at a relatively early stage and English is not yet firmly established. Throughout the book, he includes important insights from a broad range of perspectives in linguistics, history, education, geopolitics, and more. Each chapter includes striking and revealing anecdotes from the front-line experiences of today’s scientists, some of whom have struggled with the reality of global scientific English. He explores topics such as student mobility, publication trends, world Englishes, language endangerment, and second language learning, among many others. What he uncovers will challenge readers to rethink their assumptions about the direction of contemporary science, as well as its future. |
| english language is universal: An Essay Towards a Real Character, And a Philosophical Language John Wilkins, 1668 |
| english language is universal: The Language System of English Vulf Plotkin, 2006 A description of the English language as a dynamic system in the evolutionary process of radical typological restructuring, which has deeply affected its constituent subsystems - grammatical, lexical and phonic. |
| english language is universal: English as a Global Language in China Lin Pan, 2014-10-28 This book offers insight into the spread and impact of English language education in China within China’s broader educational, social, economic and political changes. The author's critical perspective informs readers on the connections between language education and political ideologies in the context of globalizing China. The discussion of the implications concerning language education is of interest for current and future language policy makers, language educators and learners. Including both diachronic and synchronic accounts or China’s language education policy, this volume highlights how China as a modern nation-state has been seeking a more central position globally, and the role that English education and the promotion of such education played in that effort in recent decades. |
| english language is universal: A Universal Critical and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: Including Scientific Terms , 1863 |
| english language is universal: Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order Shigeru Miyagawa, 2012 Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, Miyagawa's work addresses the nature of the relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case marking and other phenomena help to elucidate this relationship. In this collection of new and revised pieces, Miyagawa expands and develops new analyses for numeral quantifier stranding, ditransitive constructions, nominative/genitive alternation, syntactic analysis of lexical and syntactic causatives, and historical change in the accusative case marking from Old Japanese to Modern Japanese. All of these analyses demonstrate an intimate relation among case marking, argument structure, and word order. |
| english language is universal: Is English Destined to Become Universal Language of the World? W. Brackebusch, 1868 |
| english language is universal: The Language Instinct Steven Pinker, 2010-12-14 A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book. — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published. |
| english language is universal: Linguistic Imperialism Robert Phillipson, 1992 This study explores the contemporary phenomenon of English as an international language, and sets out to analyze how and why the language has become so dominant. It examines the historical spread of the language, the role it plays in Third World countries, and the ideologies it transmits. |
| english language is universal: The English Languages Thomas Burns McArthur, 1998-04-23 Plural? monolithic? legion? - Tom McArthur explores the nature of English in its local and global contexts. |
| english language is universal: Politics and the English Language George Orwell, 2021-01-01 George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times |
| english language is universal: Universal Dictionary of the English Language , 1898 |
| english language is universal: Universal Dictionary of the English Language Robert Hunter, 1899 |
| english language is universal: Universal Grammar in Child Second Language Acquisition Usha Lakshmanan, 1994-01-01 This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English as a second language. The book provides evidence from the longitudinal speech data of four child second language (L2) learners in order to test the predictions of a recent theory of null-subjects, namely, the Morphological Uniformity Principle (MUP). Lakshmanan argues that the child L2 acquisition data offer little or no evidence in support of the MUP s predictions regarding a developmental relation between verb inflections and null-subjects. The evidence from these child L2 data indicates that regardless of the status of null subjects in their first language, child L2 learners of English hypothesize correctly from the very beginning that English requires subjects of tensed clauses to be obligatorily overt. The failure on the part of these learners to obey this knowledge in certain structural contexts is the result of perceptual factors that are unrelated to parameter setting. The book demonstrates the value of child second language acquisition data in evaluating specific proposals within linguistic theory for a Universal principle. |
| english language is universal: The Universal Dictionary of the English Language Henry Cecil Wyld, 1934 |
| english language is universal: The Story of English Philip Gooden, 2013-11-05 Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from the late Middle Ages, the English language has grown to become the linguistic equivalent of a superpower, and is now sometimes described as the world's lingua franca. Worldwide, some 380 million people speak English as a first language and some 600 million as a second language. A staggering one billion people are believed to be learning it. English is the premier international language in communications, science, business, aviation, entertainment, and diplomacy and also on the Internet. It has been one of the official languages of the United Nations since its founding in 1945. It is considered by many good judges to be well on the way to becoming the world's first universal language Author Philip Gooden tells the story of the English language in all its richness and variety. From the intriguing origins and changing definitions of common words such as OK, berserk, curfew, cabal, and pow-wow, to the massive transformations wrought in the vocabulary and structure of the language by Anglo-Saxon and Norman conquest, through to the literary triumphs of Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales and the works of Shakespeare. The Story of English is a fascinating tale of linguistic, social and cultural transformation, and one that is accessibly and authoritatively told by an author in perfect command of his material. |
| english language is universal: Book from the Ground Bing Xu, 2018-11-06 A book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of modern life. Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read. —Xu Bing Following his classic work Book from the Sky, the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel—one composed entirely of symbols and icons that are universally understood. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct the narrative of Book from the Ground. The result is a readable story without words, an account of twenty-four hours in the life of “Mr. Black,” a typical urban white-collar worker. Our protagonist's day begins with wake-up calls from a nearby bird and his bedside alarm clock; it continues through tooth-brushing, coffee-making, TV-watching, and cat-feeding. He commutes to his job on the subway, works in his office, ponders various fast-food options for lunch, waits in line for the bathroom, daydreams, sends flowers, socializes after work, goes home, kills a mosquito, goes to bed, sleeps, and gets up the next morning to do it all over again. His day is recounted with meticulous and intimate detail, and reads like a postmodern, post-textual riff on James Joyce's account of Bloom's peregrinations in Ulysses. But Xu Bing's narrative, using an exclusively visual language, could be published anywhere, without translation or explication; anyone with experience in contemporary life—anyone who has internalized the icons and logos of modernity, from smiley faces to transit maps to menus—can understand it. |
| english language is universal: Universal Dictionary of the English Language: Ine-Rhe Robert Hunter, 1897 |
| english language is universal: Esperanto (The Universal Language) John Charles O'Connor, 1903 |
| english language is universal: Universal Dictionary of the English Language Robert Hunter, Charles Morris, 1897 |
| english language is universal: The Universal Language Luis Felipe Fernández, 2021-07-11 What i'm going to say is that I've been remembering facts of this life and i believe myself like im the center of everything. The Christ consciousness is basically based on what i could say as an individual: there's no other ones, there's no existence of people. I have seen that and that is why i'm talking about it, there's no people in this world, i am the only one living on this reality that is totally a software. It is a software that i don't really know where it cames from.Some says from the moon; some says other stuff i don't really know where this software comes from but what I am really sure about is that everything is an illusion. we live inside a matrix and there's no we because i live inside a simulation of a software computer highly advanced and also highly damaged as well. I just want to say that i'm here, even if i know that there is no one out there i know and i understand values and the courage of the ones that surrounds me because the creation of themselves is my fault. If i see myself separated from others from my own self in other persons is because i'm not in a consciousness of unity if I were in a conscious of unity: no one and everyone will disappear: i'm working for that.There's no past there's no future it's only one life. There's no history, there is no bible those notes are just reminding you, reminding me who i am and what is my mission to accomplish. My mission to complete is to go back to my father GOD. My father is the creator of everything which is myself in the future there's no differentiation between myself from the future or what you call GOD, it's just myself in the future in a future that could understand the unity conciseness that means that in the future i finally understood that I am everything.With this book you will understand the real alphabet, theres only one language and you will learn to decode it very single possible combination of letters and numbers and get to a primordial state of knowin |
| english language is universal: English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education Roland Sussex, 2012-07-10 Noting ASEAN's adoption of English as its sole workng language, this book analyzes the language education policies of Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Sri Lanka and China, and traces the influence of globalization on English language education in Asia. |
| english language is universal: The new world of words. [&c.]. Edward Phillips, 1720 |
| english language is universal: Slang Jonathon Green, 2016 In this Very Short Introduction Jonathon Green asks what words qualify as slang, and whether slang should be acknowledged as a language in its own right. Looking forward, he considers what the digital revolution means for the future of slang.--Cover flap. |
| english language is universal: Symbols Joseph Piercy, 2013-10-25 This fascinating book highlights the roles symbols have played throughout history and how they have shaped our understanding of the world. |
| english language is universal: New Universal Graphic Dictionary of the English Language, Self-pronouncing William Joseph Pelo, 1925 |
| english language is universal: The universal pronouncing and defining dictionary of the English language, with numerous synonyms by C.A. Goodrich [&c.]. Noah Webster, 1869 |
| english language is universal: The Virtual Linguistics Campus Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke, 2006 |
| english language is universal: Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar Lydia White, 2003-03-06 Table of contents |
| english language is universal: New Universal Graphic Dictionary of the English Language, Self-pronouncing , 1922 |
| english language is universal: The Universal Language of Mind Daniel R. Condron, 1994 Interpretatie van het bijbelboek Matteus. |
| english language is universal: Interlingua-English International Auxiliary Language Association, Alexander Gode, 1951 |
| english language is universal: The New American-English as a World Language and Universal Shorthand William Edwin Irish, 1925 |
| english language is universal: The Universal Pronouncing Dictionary, and General Expositor of the English Language Thomas Wright, 1852 |
| english language is universal: Universal Languages and Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century M. M. Slaughter, 1982-09-23 Examines highly regarded proposals during the seventeenth century for an artificial language intended to replace Latin as the international medium of communication. |
| english language is universal: English as an International Language Farzad Sharifian, 2009-01-08 Collectively, the chapters in this volume make a significant contribution to the emerging paradigm of English as an International Language (EIL) by exploring various aspects of the English language and its pedagogy in the context of the globalization of this language. The volume shows great deal of promise in terms of expanding the paradigm and also establishing new grounds for thinking, research, and practice. |
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