Chapter 1. Globalization, Global English, and World English(es): Myths and Facts
- Nikolas Coupland
Published Online: 7 OCT 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324068.ch1
Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
The Handbook of Language and Globalization
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How to Cite
Mufwene, S. S. (2010) Globalization, Global English, and World English(es): Myths and Facts, in The Handbook of Language and Globalization (ed N. Coupland), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444324068.ch1
Publication History
- Published Online: 7 OCT 2010
- Published Print: 6 AUG 2010
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Print ISBN: 9781405175814
Online ISBN: 9781444324068
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Keywords:
- global multilingualism, world languages, and language systems;
- globalization, global English, and world English(es) - myths and facts;
- globalization - no more than McDonaldization and Americanization;
- economic globalization or language spread - not new in the history of mankind;
- globalization, as “the process of becoming global”;
- globalization, not thought of exclusively or primarily at world–wide level;
- colonization and globalization;
- European colonial expansion - extension of the Indo-European dispersal;
- colonial rule change - entailing a shift of official languages;
- structural differences between ‘world Englishes’ – not relating to nature of restructuring processes
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
What Is Globalization and What Is New about It?
Colonization and Globalization
The European Colonial Expansion Since the Fifteenth Century
The British Empire, the British Commonwealth, and the Emergence of English as a Pre – Eminent ‘World Language’
World Englishes
The Fallacy of ‘Global English’
Will there Be an English-Only Europe?
Conclusions
References