Criticism of English

n Negative impact of English was first noticed in British colonies, in India, Ghandi, national leader, stated it brings alienation, intoxication, denationalization and mental slavery, later on other terms were coined internationally : Linguistic imperialism , linguicism, anglocentricity, glottopolitics

 

l Donor-recipient relations,

l Dominant and domineering cultures,

l English linguistic hegemony

l Linguistic imperialism

l Linguistic globalisation.

l Anglo-American hegemonic culture

l English as ‘a killer language’

l English-Only Europe? (2003) by Phillipson

l “the overarching dominance of anglophone nativespeakerism”

 

 

n English & Ideology: Some politicians state that British Council was set up as an institution to promote English, that English invasion was masterminded.

 

 

n In China teachers of English initiated the slogan which has become global “Think global, teach local! Mind the gap!

 

 

n American English also contributed to English invasion: in 1986 the Economist assembled a list of English words that have become more or less universal: airport, hotel, passport, telephone, bar, soda, cigarette, sport, golf, tennis, stop, O.K.,weekend, jeans, know-how, sex, no problem