j lee 's List: global englishes

• origins in conquest, military and political   subjugation, and economic exploitation
• The imaginative project in the inter-war period to devise a restricted form   of English as an "international auxiliary language", BASIC English   (BASIC = British American Scientific International Commercial), was promoted   in the hope that lesser languages would be eliminated: "What the world   needs is about 1000 more dead languages — and one more alive" (Ogden,   1934, cited in Bailey, 1991, 210). Here "international understanding"   was seen as unidirectional, with other languages to be abandoned in favour   of the dominant language, English, this having been made more accessible through   simplification.
• Notions of the superiority of English
• Britain and the United States have not   changed as economic colonialism has replaced the direct, political management   of third world nation
• The present context is one of McDonaldization, of structural asymmetry due   to economic might, symbolized by the fact that 80% of films shown in western   Europe are of Californian origin, whereas 2% of films shown in North America   are of European origi
• he proposed global   core curriculum names seven key domains of learning, one of which is the "world-language",   which is imperative for all, i.e. English; a second relates to other languages,   which those unhappy enough to be born without English as their mother tongue   need to learn.⁸ Effectively, this educational   vision posits two human types: monolingual English-speakers, and bilingual   others.

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