this essay in English. In fact, I spend most of my time communicating with others, expressing myself, and learning new knowledge in English. Regardless of my race, I, similar to many people across the world, use English as a primary language in my daily life. Most will agree that English is the international language of the world. To this day, English has been the most widely spread language around the globe. It is the official language of over 50 countries and the third most spoken language worldwide
Nowadays, Celtic languages are not spoken by a large number of people and they are mostly limited to the British Isles and to Brittany, in north-western France. However, they once comprised a huge area of Europe, from Britain to Asia Minor in Roman and pre-Roman times. Celtic, which is a branch of the Indo-European language family, is subdivided into Continental Celtic and Insular Celtic. The four Continental languages of which there is evidence are Gaulish, Celtiberian, Galatian and Lepontic. Nonetheless
English as a Lingua Franca Yoonmin Kim Extended Essay English Group 3 Advisor: Mr. Young Word Count: Maximum length 4000 words (40 hours) 2016. 2. 11. To what extent does English linguistic imperialism affect Asian indigenous cultures? Language: English Title: English as a Lingua Franca Topic: Social and Cultural Impact of English as an International Language in Asia Research Question: To what extent does English linguistic imperialism affect Asian indigenous culture? Going through
Speak “Right” English: The Unconstitutional Standard English Language Ideology In this essay, I question the validity of Standard English Language Ideology. Moreover, I employ the research done by Nelson Flores and Jonathan Rosa, Samy Alim and other authors to support my argument that the enforcement of Standard English Language violates the rights of American citizens, especially those minorities whose first language is not English. This includes the right of free speech and the right of equality
(2001:3), have seen our popular culture in ourselves. This essay compares the tragic engagements of young Africans with contemporaneous issues relating to culture and popular culture, through the fictional novels of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy (1994), and Kopano Matlwa, Coconut (2007). Particular attention is paid to the stumbling blocks Sozaboy’s Mene and Coconut’s Ofilwe Tlou and Fikile Twala encounter with issues concerning education, language, and alienation. Firstly, Sozaboy is a war novel set against
Derrida’s Of Grammatology (1976) and this has made her apply deconstructive strategies to a range of theoretical writings and textual analyses that also includes feminism, Marxism, literary criticism and post colonialism. Can the Subaltern Speak?” is an essay that was first delivered in 1983. This well known treatise established Gayatri Spivak among the ranks of feminists who include history, geography, and class when they think and write about the development of women. Spivak’s main effort in all her writings
George Yule, in his book The Study of Language, regional variation is not only a matter of two or more dialects of a single language, but it can also involve two or more different languages within the same country. The author takes Canada as an example of a bilingual country, where both French and English are official languages. Yule mentions that Canada is essentially an “English-speaking country, with a French-speaking minority group”, which needs to learn English in order to participate in the larger
background of Hong Kong forms its own identity, which is different from other regions like mainland China, and makes it a specific imagined community, which is accord with Benedict Anderson’s theory of imagined community. Whereas, it is under discussion whether since the reunification in 1997, Hong Kong has been gradually transformed into a part of China in terms of culture and identity and, thus, will no longer be a separated imagined community in the future. This short essay will firstly illustrate why Hong
The Spread of English Globalization made the world as a small village which needed a global language to enable people, from different places and cultures around the world, to communicate with each other. Nevertheless, one most important outcome of globalization is the increased spread of languages, particularly the English language. language Globalization can be defined as the correlations of global political, economic, cultural and environmental processes that modify present positions
Upon getting its independence in 1921,Ireland became tied to the consolidation and affirmation of identity without English influence. There was a now a great community will to preserve what was left of the Irish culture drawing on national pride and cultural nationalism. A German Historian Fredrich Meinecke stated that there are two types of nations 1. Cultural nations and 2. Political nations. A Cultural nation like Ireland sees an ethnic and political stance overlap in the aims of the nation. Our