English in The World — Who Said It?
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“To ask about the future of language is to really ask about the future of society”
David Crystal, 2014
“Power always drives language”
David Crystal, 2014
“English is the language of power”
David Crystal, 2014
“The world needs a global language because countries want to talk to each other”
David Crystal, 2014
“Having a single language streamlines communication”
Prof. Sue Garton, 2021
“Having a single language for science makes access to knowledge easier”
Prof. Sue Garton, 2021
“We lose part of humanity”
Prof. Sue Garton, 2021
“We lose culture, we lose tradition, we lose knowledge”
Prof. Sue Garton
“Only by forgetting our mother tongue in the process of learning the second language can we truly master the second language”
Ye Zhou, Leshan University, study on vocational college students learning English, 2017
“Weird, improper, and unacceptable to native English speakers”
Ye Zhou, 2017 study on vocational college students learning English, in reference to Chinglish
“That misshapen, hybrid language”
Joan Pinkham, 1998, in reference to Chinglish
It is not an interference to language but feather a verbal mechanism of presenting an individual’s social standing with regard to the particular conversational participant”
Skiba, 2000
“Read out globish speeches as if they’d been turned into English by a computer”
Simon Kuper
“We are in danger of watering down our communication in the name of global democracy”
Gloria Gibbons, Health Communications Council
“The English language continues to flourish. Does this affect other languages?”
Peter Levelle
“It’s too imprecise”
Peter Lavelle, in reference to Globish
“English-like but still correct English”
Jean Paul Nerriere
“Learning a foreign language to do business is valid in only one instance: if you are living in that country”
Jean Paul Nerriere
“When you are in the real world you have to communicate as best you can”
Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School
“In the real world people don’t really function like that. They negotiate meaning. They try to get through.”
Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School
“It’s a much more complex task”
Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, in reference to learning English
“Something that scares me is the assumption that the only language you need is English”
Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School
“People need some guidance to best employ the limited language they have”
David Graddol, City University of Hong Kong
“I think it’s more about certain strategies and principles of using the language you already know”
David Graddol, City University of Hong Kong
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