Considerations on English as a Global Lingua Franca
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6347098 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Lacey (0000-0001-9290-8283, European University Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 363-372 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-9299 • E-ISSN: 1478-9302 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1478-9302.12004 |
| OpenAlex | W1500724588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 3 |
Central to Philippe Van Parijs’ recent text, Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World, are claims that the emergence of English as a global lingua franca is (1) inevitable, (2) necessary for transnational justice and (3) to be accelerated. After first outlining the reasoning behind these claims, this article then goes on to argue that there are good reasons to doubt that English will inevitably become a global lingua franca; the absence of a lingua franca is not an insurmountable obstacle to the achievement of transnational justice; and there is little justification for artificially accelerating the universalisation of English
Economic Justice · English as a lingua franca · Global justice · Lingua franca · Linguistics · Obstacle · Political science · Sociology · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Exploring Motivational Orientations of Prospective Language Teachers
The problem with English(es) and linguistic (in)justice. Addressing the limits of liberal egalitarian accounts of language
Marxism, early Soviet sociolinguistics, and Gramsci's linguistic ideas
On the Permissibility of Free-Riding on the Global Lingua Franca
European boundaries in question
Conceptually Mapping the European Union
Must Europe Be Swiss? On the Idea of a Voting Space and the Possibility of a Multilingual Demos
Multilingual communication for whom? Language policy and fairness in the European Union
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |