INGS2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Virtual Community, Barter, Blackboard
26 Jul 2018
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Week 4: translations and border crossings ii : the languages and. Languages and power: accommodation and resistance. " in m ir ad. ), language, power and identity politics, 1-20 (chpt 1). The emerging de- territorialisation of languages is new. English is spoken as an additional rather then a spoken as a first. This distinction put forward by ammon (1991) proposes that languages can only be deemed to be international in a rigorous sense if different nation-states with diverse languages use the same international language in addition to their own. Demographic projections show that by 2050 there will be more speakers of english as a second language rather than as a mother tongue (graddol 1999), with an increase to 462 million speakers as a second language. The "normalisation" of british and american english in a global context is at the expense not just of other languages but of other varieties of english.
