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Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World.
In Europe and throughout the world, competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved by any language in human history. This apparently irresistible growing dominance of English is frequently perceived and sometimes indignantly denounced as being grossly unjust. Linguistic Justice for Eur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2011.
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| Colección: | Oxford political theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In Europe and throughout the world, competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved by any language in human history. This apparently irresistible growing dominance of English is frequently perceived and sometimes indignantly denounced as being grossly unjust. Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World starts off arguing that the dissemination of competence in a common lingua franca is a process to be welcomed and accelerated, most fundamentally because itprovides the struggle for greater justice in Europe and in the world with an essential weapon: a cheap medium of communica. |
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| Notas: | 6.8 Inter-local diversity and solidarity: an unexpected alliance? |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (312 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780191617126 0191617121 |