33.72, Books: The Rise of English: Salomone

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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 22:19:25
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: The Rise of English: Salomone

 


Title: The Rise of English 
Subtitle: Global Politics and the Power of Language 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-rise-of-english-9780190625610?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Rosemary Salomone

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190625610 Pages: 488 Price: U.S. $ 35


Abstract:

A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics
of language

Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua
franca--its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and
international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value
and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric "rise of
English" has many obvious benefits to communication. Tourists can travel
abroad with greater ease. Political leaders can directly engage their
counterparts. Researchers can collaborate with foreign colleagues. Business
interests can flourish in the global economy.

But the rise of English has very real downsides at times generating intense
legal conflicts. In Europe, imperatives of political integration, job
mobility, and university rankings compete with pride in national language and
heritage as countries like France attempt to curb its spread. In countries
like India, South Africa, Morocco, and Rwanda, it has stratified society along
lines of English proficiency and devalued commonly spoken languages. In
Anglophone countries like the United States and England, English isolates us
from the cultural and economic benefits of speaking other languages.

In "The Rise of English", Rosemary Salomone offers a commanding view of the
unprecedented spread of English and the far-reaching effects it has on global
and local politics, economics, media, education, and business. From the inner
workings of the European Union to China's use of language as "soft power" in
Africa, Salomone draws on a wealth of research to tell the complex story of
English--and, ultimately, to argue for English not as a force for domination
but as a core component of multilingualism and the transcendence of linguistic
and cultural borders.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=158213




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