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By Jacques Maurais, Michael A. Morris

The destiny of languages has been heavily associated with political energy relationships all through human background. Political shifts within the foreign process this present day proceed to impact linguistic styles, nonetheless in a kingdom of flux following the top of the chilly warfare. This ebook considers the consequences of present-day traits in international politics at the relative prestige of languages, and the instructions during which the linguistic hierarchy could improve sooner or later. It appeals to researchers and scholars of sociolinguistics and language making plans in addition to of diplomacy.

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1998, ‘Person-reason yin vs. the unicode consortium,’ communication at the conference Language in the twenty-first century, University of Hartford, May. Jucquois, Guy 1999, ‘De quelques paradoxes dans l’usage et dans les politiques des langues,’ in La gestion du plurilinguisme et des langues nationales dans un contexte de mondialisation, Actes du S´eminaire de Qu´ebec, Qu´ebec, Conseil de la langue fran¸caise, pp. 67–98. Krauss, Michael 1992, ‘The world’s languages in crisis,’ Language 68: 7–9.

David Dalby is in disagreement with the Graddol analysis, which holds that an important number of languages will disappear in the course of the twenty-first century; according to Dalby the present linguistic diversity is greater than linguists imagine (there may well be 10,000 languages instead of 6,000) and the rate of disappearance is less than has been estimated (British Council 1999, p. 10). Still others believe that big languages like English and French will become the victim of a Babelisation process.

For his part, G¨oran Therborn (2000) notes the existence in history of five consecutive waves of globalisation, from the time of the spread of the great religions with a universal vocation. e. 110). 6 Present economic forces could favour the appearance of a hegemonic language. On this question Ren´ee Balibar and Dominique Laporte (1974), while studying the spread of 6 Language International, June 1999, p. 18. Towards a new global linguistic order? 23 French in France in the nineteenth century, pointed out the existing link between the uniformity of linguistic practices and the demands of economic production; in order to increase the flow of goods and services, according to the study, one had to eliminate internal tariffs and the different local systems of weights and measures, as well as dialects, patois and local regional languages.

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