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Kōtoku Shūsui and Japanese Linguistic Imperialism

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Linguistic imperialism?

Language Problems and Language Planning, 2001
There is growing concern about the spread and influence of English worldwide. In Cyprus, the influence of English on the Greek Cypriot dialect has attracted much interest in recent years, becoming the subject of frequent media attention and, at times, creating acrimonious public discussion.
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Linguistic imperialism: a conspiracy, or a conspiracy of silence?

Language Policy, 2007
Man’s mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man’s soul. And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible, and ...
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Language teaching = Linguistic imperialism?

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
Abstract Linguistic imperialism is the expansion of a small number of privileged languages at the cost of a large number of others. The language teaching profession is a potential instrument of linguistic imperialism and needs to address the question of the ecological impact of language teaching and to take an ecological view of ...
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English Linguistic Imperialism from Below

2022
The book shows how English has been newly constituted as a dominant language in post-market reform India. Political economic transitions experienced as radical social mobility fuelled intense non-elite desire for English schooling. Rather than English schooling leading to social mobility, new experiences of mobility necessitated English schooling.
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Linguistic imperialism: African perspectives

ELT Journal, 1996
This is a response to a recent article in ELT Journal on aspects of African language policy (Bisong 1995). Among the points taken up are: research evidence from African scholars; multilingualism and monolingualism; proposed changes in language policy from the Organization for African Unity and in current initiatives in South Africa; the language that ...
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Linguistic Imperialism

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 1994
Thomas Ricento, Robert Phillipson
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Linguistic Imperialism

2013
The entry presents the key constituents of linguistic imperialism. Principles for English learning that are central to the promotion of English worldwide by the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States are questioned. Monolingualism was imposed in the UK historically and in settler colonies in the Americas and Australasia. This occurred in Roman times
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Beyond Chinese Linguistic Imperialism: Multi-linguistic Policy

2015
In discussing the erosion of Tibetan language teaching in Tibet, Chapter 9 explores China’s long history of ‘linguistic imperialism’ and asks how it is mediating, and perhaps even undermining, multicultural education in the PRC. It finds that China’s linguistic history has been one of linguistic imperialism in which China’s language policies have been ...
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