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A paper which considers English as an international language, with reference to Edward Said's concepts of Self and Other in relation to the language of minority cultures, and the global use of English in a multicultural postcolonial society. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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There are two ways in which the concept of English as an international language might be approached, with reference to the need for efficient global communication
and the issue of Self and Other, in terms of both individual and national identity, which Edward Said addresses. On the one hand, one could reasonably assert that there is
a necessity for a global language, and several valid justifications for that language being English.
For example, with the advent of the new technology and global communication, it is evident that national barriers are being dissolved and
there is a much greater degree of interaction between different countries, both on a personal and a corporate level. From this point of view, it is clear that the method
of communication which is employed should be one that is familiar to all, even though this does not in itself mean that the individuals concerned would need to sacrifice their
original methods of communication in order to participate in a global one. In many countries, the second language which is taught in schools is English: in addition, most Europeans already
have English as a second language, and in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres English is already widely used, since it is the common tongue of both the US and
Australia. It would be possible to argue, perhaps, that there are other languages that have a greater flexibility and range of nuances, and that English is perhaps limited in this
way, although one might also point out that English is highly amenable to assimilating words and phrases from other languages where necessary, and incorporating them into common parlance.
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