From the Fall of Babel Tower to the Global Rise of English
Language and Diachronic Transformations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21982630 |
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| Authors | Agnieszka Cierpich-Kozieł (0000-0002-9669-550X, Jagiellonian University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 79-92 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspektywy Kultury (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2081-1446 • E-ISSN: 2719-8014 |
| Publisher | Jesuit University Ignatianum - Ignatianum University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.35765/pk.2024.4502.07 |
| OpenAlex | W4400973070 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper focuses on English as the primary lingua franca of the globalised world, characterised by the interconnectedness and interdependence of people, nations, and cultures. It seeks to present linguistic transformation from various perspectives and to better understand the current challenges and threats to this transformation process as well as opportunities for its development. The aim of the paper is threefold: (a) to outline the atemporal theme of language as mankind’s greatest boon, recurring in various mythologies and religions; (b) to trace the spread of English across the world and to demonstrate its path to global linguistic hegemony; and (c) to shed light on how English is utilised in cooperation and collective action and on how it can be used for manipulation, deception, and control by knowledge-based societies today
Collective action · Epistemology · Hegemony · Lingua franca · Linguistics · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tower of Babel · Classics · Computer Science · Globalization and Cultural Identity · History · Information Society and Technology Trends · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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