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    The document discusses the globalization and spread of the English language over the past few decades. It argues that English has become the world's lingua franca and the dominant language of international communication in political, commercial, and cultural contexts. While other languages are still widely spoken, they have been "demoted or degraded" relative to English and are losing their status as languages of global exchange. Several factors contributed to the initial spread of English, including colonialism, migration, and new technologies, and its continued dominance is driven by increasing globalization and interconnectedness worldwide.

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    The Globalisation of English Language

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    The document discusses the globalization and spread of the English language over the past few decades. It argues that English has become the world's lingua franca and the dominant language of international communication in political, commercial, and cultural contexts. While other languages are still widely spoken, they have been "demoted or degraded" relative to English and are losing their status as languages of global exchange. Several factors contributed to the initial spread of English, including colonialism, migration, and new technologies, and its continued dominance is driven by increasing globalization and interconnectedness worldwide.

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    The document discusses the globalization and spread of the English language over the past few decades. It argues that English has become the world's lingua franca and the dominant language of international communication in political, commercial, and cultural contexts. While other languages are still widely spoken, they have been "demoted or degraded" relative to English and are losing their status as languages of global exchange. Several factors contributed to the initial spread of English, including colonialism, migration, and new technologies, and its continued dominance is driven by increasing globalization and interconnectedness worldwide.

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    The

    Globalisation of
    English
    Language
    •As Hjarvard (2003) pontificated, over the past
    two or three decades, English has come to
    occupy a singular position among languages.

    •What was previously only one among several


    dominant European languages, on a par with
    French or Spanish, is today a world language,
    the language people use whenever they wish to
    communicate with others outside their own
    linguistic community.
    •He goes further to argue that English has
    become the lingua franca of the global network:
    where the TCP/IP protocol secures technical
    communication between computers via the
    internet, English is the "protocol" for oral and
    written communication across national
    frontiers.

    •Meanwhile, as the English language has


    continued to enjoy unique ascendancy, the
    status of the other principal languages has
    changed.
    •Even though they are spoken by more people
    today than ever before, they have been demoted or
    degraded in relation to English.

    •Today, French, Spanish, Arabic, German, Russian,


    etc., more or less have the status of regional or
    national languages that can be used beyond their
    national frontiers.

    •But, they are losing their currency as the language


    of international communication, formal and
    informal: both in political and commercial contexts
    and in intercultural exchanges, as bridges between
    people who cross cultural frontiers or who like to
    enrich their lives with media products from abroad.
    •For Green (2011), the English language has been in
    widespread use around the world for well over a century,
    starting with the days of the British Empire, and continuing as
    the United States became a political and cultural superpower.

    •With the recent increased pace of globalisation, and the


    resulting profound changes in the kinds of connections that
    exist between nations and peoples in different parts of the
    world, English has become even more of a world language.

    •He argues that globalisation pushes forward global English


    hegemony.
    •This position had been assented to by
    McKay (2002) who had argued that factors
    such as colonialism, speaker migration, and
    new technology had greatly contributed to
    making English an international language and
    were the major reasons for the initial spread
    of English.
    •However, for Crystal (1997), other reasons for the
    spread of the English language include that it has
    become the language of international relations.

    •Emphasising the continuous dominance of the


    English language, Graddol (2001) has predicted that
    no other language will appear within the next fifty
    years to replace English as the global lingua franca.
    Indeed, the English language is for
    many people in the world today, the
    medium that makes possible to as
    ‘the intensification of worldwide
    social relations’. It seems that there
    is no part of the world where there
    has not been at least some contact
    with English, although, paralleling
    globalization, the incidence and
    significance of English is unequal in
    different parts of the world. About
    such issues, there seems to be little
    disagreement (Hornberger, 2008).

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