English, ESL or EFL is Spoken by about ½ of the People in the World ( about 2 Billion People)

1. English as a Global Language
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2. English, ESL or EFL
is Spoken by about ½ of the People
in the World ( about 2 Billion People)
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3. English as a Global Language
• ¾ of the World’s Mail
• ½ of the World’s technical & scientific journals
• ½ of all newspapers
• 80 % of the information in computers
• All International Air Pilots
• All International Sea Captains
• Many movies, songs, and much business
• ½ of European business deals
• 7 of the Largest TV Broadcasters (CBS, NBC, ABC,
BBC, CBC, CNN, C-Span)
• TV Televangelism of Christianity
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4. Varieties of Global English
• Deutschlish
• Franglish (la langue du Coca-Cola)
• Indian English
• Japlish (man-shon vs. mai-homu, basaburo,
aisu-kurimu, mai-com [my computer])
• Russlish (летс ми спик фРом май хаРт)
• Spanglish
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6. Competing Global Languages
• Arabic
• Russian (before the breakup of the
Soviet Union in Eastern Europe)
• Mandarin
• Spanish
• French
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8. THE PREREQUISITES FOR ACQUIRING ENGLISH
AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE.
HISTORICAL. Active colonialism in the era of
the Great Geographical Discoveries and the
Enlightenment unusually expanded the
territory of the British Empire
("the country over which the sun does not
set," as it was nicknamed at that time -
because the possessions of the British Crown
existed in almost all the time zones of the
planet).
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9. • It is only natural that English became the
official language for British governorships.
• By the time of the final disappearance of the
British Empire in the twentieth century, the
language was so firmly entrenched in the
former colonies that there was not a single
reason to change its status
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10. • In addition, the need for diplomatic relations
with such a powerful neighbor compelled
other European powers to also learn English.
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11. • TECHNOLOGICAL.
Most of the modern
developments in technology
(in particular, communication)
are created in the
English-speaking
United States and are closed
by US patents.
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12. • For example, the Internet penetrated into our
daily life grew out of military developments
of the US Army, which later found application
for scientific purposes and in the civil
communications market.
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13. • INFORMATIONAl. In English, a huge number
of scientific publications, fiction, films and
music. All major universities, film companies,
music labels are and are registered in the
United States and other English-speaking
countries. The main news agencies use in the
first place English.
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14. • LINGUISTIC. English, despite its wealth, is
fairly simple to learn. Moreover, now in the
world there is a significant simplification of
the language in communication between non-
native speakers. The so-called pidgin-English is
the product of this process.
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15. English language was accompanied
by some historical success.
• A large number of historically significant
events occurred thanks to English-speaking
participants:
• expedition of Captain Cook and Captain
Vancouver,
• establishment of trade links with Africa and
the East,
• settling colonists of North America
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16. • expulsion of prisoners to Australia,
• capture of India,
• inglorious interchange of slaves, molasses
and manufactory between Britain, West
Africa and the Caribbean,
• the first steps of the industrial revolution
• many subsequent events.
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17. • At the same time, the gradual spread of the
English language in the period since 1600 of this
time passed in several stages.
• Since 1900, the third stage in the spread of the
English language began.
• Since that time, local residents in the colonies
have been educated in English, and in the US,
Canada and Australia, immigrants have been
given the opportunity to learn English in special
courses
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18. The transformation of the English
language
in the context of globalization
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19. Atomic-Bomb Words
Atomic Holocaust
Chain Reaction (cf.
Vonnegut’s “Ice Nine”)
Fallout
Fireball
Fission
Fusion
Mushroom Cloud
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20. Coca-Colonialism
Budweiser
Coca Cola
Gillette
Kellogg’s Cornflakes
Kellogg’s Rice
Krispies
(“Snap Crackle and
Pop” has to be
translated into various
languages)
Kodak
Maxwell House Coffee
Schlitz
Lucky Strike
Marlboro
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21. Korean and Vietnam Wars
Korean:
Brainwashing
Chopper
(Helicopter)
Vietnam:
Defoliate
Domino
Theory
Escalation
Firefight
Friendly Fire
Hawks &
Doves
Vietnam:
Moratorium
Napalm
Pacification
Search and
Destroy
The Silent
Majority (ct.
the Vocal
Minority) 21

22. Regional Dialects
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (Eastern Money)
• Harry Truman (Twangy Missouran)
• Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon & Gerald Ford
(American Midwest)
• Lyndon Johnson (Southern)
• Ronald Reagan & Dan Rather (Network Standard)
• Kennedy Family (New England)
• George W. Bush (Texas)
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23. Silicon Valley Words (California)
Artificial Intelligence
CD (Compact Disk)
DVD (Digital Video
Disk)
Data Processing
Disk(ette)
Flash Drive
Hacker
Input
Interface
Jump Drive
Modem
On-Line
ROM (Read-Only
Memory)
Software, Hardware,
Wetware
Word Processor
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24. Advantages of English
as a Global Language
• Knowledge of English increases the status of a
person, an increase in wages by 8%
• Simplified Word Endings resulting in greater
flexibility
• Teeming Vocabulary (80 % is not Anglo-Saxon) but
rather: Arabic, Celtic, Chinese, Dutch, French,
German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Latin,
Scandinavian, Spanish, etc.
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25. Disadvantages of English
• The death of multiculturalism
• Economic and Political Expansion of the West
• Ideological hegemony
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26. Let's hope for a positive outcome
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