Chicago: Globalization and Language Endangerment: Africa vs. The Americas

[Harold Schiffman]

Globalization and Language Endangerment: Africa vs. The Americas
April 9, 2008
Wednesday, 4:00pm
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana

Salikoko Mufwene
Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago

Although English is indeed now spreading rapidly all over the world,
it is not necessarily endangering the indigenous vernaculars of the
populations that have been embracing it as an international lingua
franca. Much of this has to do with the fact that globalization is far
from being a uniform phenomenon and has in fact created more
socio-economic inequities around the world. In this lecture, Mufwene
focuses on Africa and the Americas to paint a global picture from a
long, differential historical perspective connecting globalization and
colonization.

Hosted by:
African-American Studies and Research Program, Department of French,
Department of Linguistics, Department of Spanish, Italian, and
Portuguese, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences,
Language Dynamics Reading Group (Illinois Program for Research in the
Humanities), Linguistics Student Organization

http://www.cas.uiuc.edu/casmillercomm.php#apr9

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