Researching liminal English: identity, resistance, and the "strange" in TESOL

As English emerges as the lingua mundi of the nascent global order, human beings are poised to lose 50%-90% of the existing languages within a few generations. Extrapolating from current rates of extinction, Vines goes so far to suggest that only five or six hundred of the existing five to six thous...

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Veröffentlicht in:	JCT (Rochester, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2005-03, Vol.21 (1), p.39
1. Verfasser:	MacPherson, Seonaigh
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acculturation Bilingualism Biodiversity Community Relations Cross Cultural Studies Cultural anthropology Cultural Differences Cultural Pluralism Culture Dialect Studies English English (Second Language) English Instruction English language Epistemology Ethnography Extinction Forecasts and trends Indigenous Populations Language and languages Language Dominance Language Skill Attrition Linguistics Monolingualism Observation Opportunities Social Environment Sociolinguistics Sociology Standard Spoken Usage Teaching Methods
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Zusammenfassung:	As English emerges as the lingua mundi of the nascent global order, human beings are poised to lose 50%-90% of the existing languages within a few generations. Extrapolating from current rates of extinction, Vines goes so far to suggest that only five or six hundred of the existing five to six thousand estimated languages will survive in 2020, and even of those remaining, only a small number will be spoken by sizable numbers of people. McPherson discusses the dangers of the extinction of numerous local languages around the world posed by the growing preference and use of the English language because of its economic and educational benefits.
ISSN:	1057-896X