Phillipson

Figuring out the Englishisation of Europe Robert Phillipson

"I would suggest that in whatever specific contexts we meet the term lingua franca, we ask whether it might not be more appropriately labelled as a: -lingua economica (the globalisation imperative) -lingua cultura (the specific values and norms of a society, country, group or class,needing exploration in foreign language teaching) -lingua academica (an instrument for international collaboration in higher education) lingua emotiva (the pull of Hollywood, the global advertising and PR giants, pop culture,and how such grassroots identification with English ties in with top-down promotion of the language) lingua tyrannosaura (Swales 1997, the language that gobbles up others, linguisticcannibalism) lingua bellica (the language of military conquest)." p. 12

//sorry guys, only had time to read first and last pages//
 * ensuring that English is appropriated in ways that are compatible with a balanced ecology of languages p.1
 * how to strengthen the language rights of speakers of all groups, incl uding minorities. p.1
 * ... extreme concern that English is imposing an alien monoculture. p.1
 * new world order defined by corporation run "citizens" p.13
 * the concluding sentence did not make sense after multiple reads, please explain if you can