In countries like India, South Africa, Morocco, and Rwanda, it has stratified society along lines of English proficiency and devalued commonly spoken languages. In Europe, imperatives of political integration, job mobility, and university rankings compete with pride in national language and heritage as countries like France attempt to curb its spread. Business interests can flourish in the global economy.īut the rise of English has very real downsides at times generating intense legal conflicts. Researchers can collaborate with foreign colleagues. Political leaders can directly engage their counterparts. Tourists can travel abroad with greater ease. This meteoric "rise of English" has many obvious benefits to communication. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca-its common tongue. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public HealthĪ sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of language.
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The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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