English Language as Hydra: Its Impacts on Non-English Language CulturesVaughan Rapatahana, Pauline Bunce Multilingual Matters, 22 iun. 2012 - 320 pagini In far too many places, the worldwide trade in English-language teaching, testing and publishing has become a self-perpetuating, self-congratulating, neocolonial monster ... a veritable multi-headed Hydra. Too often the English language industry aggressively promotes itself as some sort of “uplifting”, “essential”, “proper” or even “better” means of communication than any other language. Unfortunately, its relentless global outreach is taking place at the direct expense, and the active denigration, of local and regional languages – not to mention individual identities. English Language as Hydra brings together the voices of linguists, literary figures and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging exposé of this monstrous Hydra in action on four continents. It provides a showcase of the diverse and powerful impacts that this ever-evolving, gluttonous beast has had on so many non-English language cultures - as well as the surreptitious, drug-like ways in which it can infiltrate individual psyches. |
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... Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, Singapore. I am a Korean-American who was born in the US, but grew up in Seoul, South Korea. As I reveal in my chapter, even though I identify myself as Korean, there are many ...
... Language and Literature, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. As an Indian who grew up to an awareness of the many rich subcultures that co-exist within what may be called the Indian culture, I ...
... national average (often tax-free) salaries with attached gratuities, with funded medical insurance schemes, return airfares, interest-free car loans and regular holidays. I was, somehow, ranked as being economically 'more worthy' than ...
... language policy for its Indigenous people is rather less optimistic. The concluding Coda of the volume, by a distinguished Malaysian poet, traces a trajectory from English dominance to significant promotion of a national language, to ...
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255English Language as HydraAfterword | 255 |
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English Language as Hydra: Its Impacts on Non-English Language Cultures Vaughan Rapatahana,Pauline Bunce Previzualizare limitată - 2012 |