Communication through English has a tremendous global utility and is literally inescapable. Its major fields of application and utility.
Posted on Friday 23 November 2012
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The
world isn’t the big place it used to be anymore, it has turned into
a very small place with the introduction of various transportation
and communication technologies. With the growth in technology and
globalization people of the different states and countries adopted
English to communicate with each other without any difficulty.
Because English is so widely spoken, it has often been referred to as
a ‘world language’, the lingua franca of the modern era, and
while it is not an official language in most countries, it is
currently the language most often taught as a foreign language. It is
by international treaty, the official language to aeronautical and
maritime communications. English is an official language of the
United Nations and many other international organizations including
the International Olympic Committee. English is the language most
often studied as a foreign language in the European Union, by 89% of
the school children, ahead of French at 32%, while the perception of
the usefulness of foreign languages among Europeans is 68% in favour
of English, ahead of 25% for French. Among some non-English speaking
European Union countries, a large percentage of the adult population
claims to be able to converse in English – in particular 85% in
Sweden, 83% in Denmark, 79% in the Netherlands, 66% in Louxemberg and
over 50% in Finland, Slovenia, Austria, Belgium and Germany.
Books, magazines and newspapers written in English are available in many countries around the around the world, and English is the most commonly used language in the sciences with science citation index reporting as early as 1997 that 95% of its articles were written in English even though only half of them came from authors in English speaking countries.
The increasing use of the English language globally has led a large impact on many languages, leading to language shift and even language death, and to claims of linguistic language imperialism. English itself has become more open to language shift as multiple regional varieties feed back into the language as a whole.
So English has become an inevitable language in today’s world.
Books, magazines and newspapers written in English are available in many countries around the around the world, and English is the most commonly used language in the sciences with science citation index reporting as early as 1997 that 95% of its articles were written in English even though only half of them came from authors in English speaking countries.
The increasing use of the English language globally has led a large impact on many languages, leading to language shift and even language death, and to claims of linguistic language imperialism. English itself has become more open to language shift as multiple regional varieties feed back into the language as a whole.
So English has become an inevitable language in today’s world.
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