The Globalization Of The English

The English language began its climb to world dominance with the rise of the British Empire in the 16th century. During this time English began to spread as the worlds lingua franca for business and trade. With the support of the United States, which at the time was one of the most successful nations in history, english was able to overthrow all previous lingua francas. However, english should not be considered as the “gateway to the world”. Although the english language is widely- spoken around the world, making english language the official language of the world will lead to diminishing cultural diversity.

With the globalization, the English Language became the main language of the communication in the world. In this perspective, Dennis Baron discusses in his article Who Owns Global English” the omnipresence and the prevalence of the English in today’s society. For Dennis Baron, English has become the key success in the world platform.

Last Night I was reading the newspaper while drinking some tea and eating a biscuit. The paper really gave me insight into the tragic realities of the world. There are a plethora of countries that don‘t have the opportunity to read “Garfield” because they cannot understand English. Due to this, English should be the global lingua franca. It is assumed that wherever anyone goes in the world, someone will speak some sort of English. It may be extremely choppy and broken but it is English nonetheless. English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Many people speak it as a primary or secondary language. In fact, an estimated 1 billion people speak English (PBS). There are two sides to having English as the lingua franca of the world. On one side, there is easier communication for business as well as innovation. On the contrary, the influence of English can destroy small languages and cultures.

English, which is spoken by 1.9 billon of the world’s population as their first language (Redman, 2004), has been spreading rapidly in the world since the British Industrial Revolution and colonialism in many continents such as Asia, Africa and North America during the 18th century (Lavot, 2000). As the influence of English is increasing, some linguists think that it is a natural process of successful international communication. However, many other languages are also dying out at an accelerating rate because of the expansion of the English language. In discussing the issue of the growing influence of English; arguments, both for and against, should be considered, particularly, in the economic, the information exchange, the linguistic

Nowadays, English is spreading faster and faster throughout the world. It is now available to everyone; it can be easily acquired whenever and wherever anyone wishes. Acquiring the English language has only advantages. Since it is an international language and the language of business, marketing, sciences and the film industry, it opens up plenty of opportunities. Speaking English makes people more employable, as it is essential nowadays to speak foreign languages, especially English. There are numerous sources, through which English is accessible, and one of the sources is the media. The media is everywhere in our everyday lives. We watch television and listen to the radio every day and we spend hours in front of the computer

It serves as the primary language of the ubiquitous and all-influential World Wide Web, latest version applications, programs and freeware, shareware, peer- to- peer, social media networks and websites. Furthermore, English is of vital importance for higher education and specialized training. English is the medium of instruction in most universities and higher education institutes of the world. Skill to read and write English aptly is very much important, especially for higher studies in a foreign country and also for good standard of books as well as study materials. It is quite untrue to say that the books accessible in diverse mother tongues are of poor quality; however, it is a fact that the books obtainable in English on diverse matters are in wider choice. Apart from these, English is important for access to world media and entertainment. Satellite channels around the world telecast news and views in English. The art, tradition, culture and life style of any country can be understood fairly well if we have knowledge of the English

English is now what linguists call a “Lingua Franca” because of the tendency for people to use English as an international language (Danesi, 2016, p.122), as well as the fact that over 40 countries use English as their official

First, since English has become an international language, its ownership is regarded as denationalised and renationalised. The concept of denationalisation proposed by Smith suggests that English is no longer just owned by countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States, but by various other countries around the world that also use the language. Kachru also argued that a global English should not only be restricted to the official use by colonial countries of the United Kingdom and the United States, and it is not a necessity to internalise the native speakers’ norms. It is said that the process of denationalisation results in renationalisation, in which, according to McKay, involves English localisation - the

According to Ethnoluge.com, English has for a long time been the 3rd most spoken and written language used by almost 372 million people. Since the early imperialism and colonization of some parts of Africa and the Western World by Britain, English has grown and has been assimilated into many different cultures and societies. With the existence of global relations and communication through the United Nations and the fact that there exist 70 English-speaking countries, the English Language has become the most widely used language of communication. This has led to many cultures being socialized into learning English in order to communicate on an international level. People’s heritage language, the language they learn as a child but never fully developed, is becoming the minority as society constantly pushes the acceptance of mainstream English. This “mainstream” English is the accepted norm of language and has resulted in the complex issue of what should be considered language and why when people express English language in their culture, it is viewed as “broken”. The push for and the existence of mainstream English in global affairs has somehow limited the identities of people of different cultures and their ability to express themselves.

Cultural flows are seen as imbalanced where dominant cultures e.g. US culture overpowers more vulnerable cultures e.g. Russian culture.  An example of Cultural Imperialism is the structure of world news.  The five major western news agencies are responsible for producing 80% of world news and only a quarter of all world news focuses on the developing world.  Therefore the dominant culture is focussed on and given precedence over the weaker.  One argument, which could be raised to this Pessimistic view, is that Western countries are the highest consumers of news and media in general and perhaps the ratio of television receivers may also be a lot higher in developed countries as opposed to developing countries, in which case the supply reflects the demand. It is not just the import and export of products that plays a part in cultural imperialism but also language. English is seen as the “language of advantage” (Collins, 1990, p211) and is the communicative language between global organizations. This evidence supports the notion that the globalization of culture is not the emergeneeemergence of growth of a global culture but a spreading in English language of US and Western cultural goods and practices.

The influence of language and power in the formation of identity can be well understood through discussion of English as a World language, the most dominant language in the world. In relations to world Englishes, Kachru, (1997) proposed three circles: Inner, Outer, and Expanding circle. The inner circle refers to norm providing with 375 million native speakers. It refers to the countries where English is spoken as the primary language of majority of the populations (ENL). Kachru (1997) emphasizes that UK, USA, New Zealand, Canada and Australia are the countries where English is spoken as a native language. The outer circle refers to norm developing with 350-450 million English as a second language speakers (ESL). It refers to those countries where English is used as an important and official language. According to Kachru (1997) these countries are ‘ex-colonies’ of Britain and the USA. Countries like India, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Nigeria use English as a second language. These countries serve their important business, official and international affairs in English. The extended circle refers to norm developing with 750 million English as foreign or International language speakers (EFL or EIL). It refers to those countries where English is spoken as a foreign language. Kachru (1997) identifies Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Japan, Indonesia, and Middle East as EFL (English as a foreign language) countries. In these countries English is not used strongly but taught and

When one considers the field of international communication, or cross-cultural communication, and the interconnectedness that comes with it, the first culture determinant that comes to mind is “language”. Language is a crucial factor in the development of worldwide communication, the process of “glocalization” notwithstanding, because it enables its audience to understand the message conveyed in a way that is common to all. Nowadays, the majority of international news or media products are produced in an English cultural milieu on the grounds that the language is taught in schools all around the world from an early age and is regarded as a foreign language of international circulation - BBC, CNN, Fox News Channel are among the channels which convey international and local news in their own language and which

Over one-thousand, five-hundred million people speak English worldwide. It is used in commerce, legislation, and as the basis for communication between countries. Many adolescents learn how to speak English in their early childhood, and many universities worldwide mainly teach in English. Historically, the most widely spoken language has originated from a very powerful nation. Thus, the influence of English-speaking countries is exceptionally great, incentivizing the widespread use of the language. Although English may be deemed the “international language”, it is one of the most difficult dialects and a simpler language may better serve the propose of a universal vernacular.

English has taken over the course of huge advancement that is the reason why it has been preferred over any particular linguistics and for the same reason it has been taught and studied all around the world. These prospects led to the formation of English language as a lingua franca, whether it’s United Kingdom, United States or Canada people have devised their own extents for speaking the English(Wen, 2012). Not only in the European countries but also in all over South Asia, English has been utilised as the lingua franca as the English language has been definitively utilised without being necessarily the language of identification. English language has been utilised for the aspects of communication because it determined the stylistic features of an enhanced community. Therefore people all around the world started to learn English to modernise their linguistics and to be diversified because in most of the countries all around the world only English language has advocated its impression to lessen the communication barriers(Mufwene, 2012). In this particular essay it would be realised that how English has transformed to become the lingua franca of the business world and what could be the reasons, suggestions for business and for native and non-native speakers of English.

English has respectable place in the society. A person is not a considered educated if he does have the fair knowledge of English. It has an established sociolinguistic fact that no one learns a second language unless there is need for it. English is perhaps best when it is the medium of instruction. This explains why more and more people want English medium schooling for their children. English medium schools have become synonymous with good teaching, better discipline, accountability, etc. So the mushrooming of English medium schools is as much an indicator of the common man’s desire for good teaching of English as ; of quality education generally, there is a social demand for English. Keeping in view this demand for English, the language holds a prime