Your Language, My Language or English? The Potential Language Choice in Communication Among Nationals of the European Union

Labrie, Normand; Quell, Carsten

doi:10.1111/1467-971x.00043

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“…Its dominance is founded upon the success of English language teaching programmes, the cultural policies employed by English-speaking nations and the economic success, predominantly post-World War II, of the United States of America (Phillipson, 1992). Consequently there is a strong desire for Europeans to learn English, especially among the younger generations (Labrie & Quell, 1997). However both public and academic opinion have stressed that English, as in post-colonial nations, may be used for the purposes of 'social control and stratification' (Phillipson & Skutnabb-Kangas, 1994: 73), leading to practices which permit unequal access to resources and power.…”

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Issues of Identity and Power in a Greek-Cypriot Community

McEntee-Atalianis¹,

Pouloukas²

2001

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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An investigation of reported attitudes and language use in Cyprus has enabled an interpretation of social conditions affording status and 'price' to products available in the linguistic market-place. It has identified boundaries of social division and provided reasons for the coexistence of multiple linguistic codes. An empirical investigation, with recourse to the theory of practice (Bourdieu, 1997), identifies and accounts for the use of national and international codes (i.e. the Greek-Cypriot dialect (GCD), Standard Modern Greek (SMG) and English), their market value and their location within the strata of the community. Simple summary scores from factor analysis groupings suggest that despite the power and hegemonic potential of international languages such as English, the strength of the national codes persist due to their dominance as purveyors of instrumental worth and collective symbolism. English exists in response to symbolic and pragmatic forces determined by modernity. Moreover, multivariate analysis of variance reveals that it is those with greatest socioeconomic power who use English as a resource, enabling the construction and exploitation of multiple social identities.

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Issues of Identity and Power in a Greek-Cypriot Community

McEntee-Atalianis¹,

Pouloukas²

2001

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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“…There are only very few exceptions, such as Nordic MTV and the online magazine EU Observer. meeting will have English in common and will thus probably resort to English for communication, this chance is as low as 6% only for Hungarians and Spaniards meeting (applying the method in Labrie and Quell 1997). However, we should keep in mind that no other language is spoken by so many Europeans so that English indeed has the highest likelihood of being chosen in multilingual encounters.…”

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New variety or learner English?

Mollin

2007

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In deciding whether non-native English is to be classified as a new variety or simply as learner language, a yardstick is needed against which the candidate variety can be tested. This paper offers such criteria for ESL-variety status, based on the three processes in the development of a new variety: expansion in function, nativization of form and institutionalization of a new standard. The criteria are exemplarily applied to the case of non-native English spoken on the European Continent, a recent controversial contender for variety status. It is suggested that if the proposed criteria are applied, Euro-English does not qualify as a New English.

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“…Labrie andQuell 1997, Jenkins andSeidlhofer 2001), promoted within the European Union by some linguistic experts, which aims to standardize the use of the English language in the European Union.…”

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The Cultural Embeddedness of Legal Texts

Kocbek¹

2008

J. Univers. Lang.

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The functionalist approaches in translation science lay great stress on the principle of cultural embeddedness of the source and the target languages and accordingly view translation as an intercultural transfer. In legal communication based on legal texts, communicative situations are directly affected by the legal systems of the source and target cultures. The legal system of one of the parties involved or, more rarely, a supranational legal system, is generally adopted as the communication framework and thus defines the language to be used. The translatability of legal texts, however, directly depends on the relatedness of the legal systems underlying the translation. The communicating parties therefore need to be well acquainted with the legal system(s) involved. This is especially the case when using English as the language of communication, as the Anglo-American legal system, based essentially on common law, differs substantially from continental law, to which most of European countries belong. The nonequivalence of many legal concepts and terms pertaining to these two systems thus has to be taken into consideration. In this paper, cases of non-equivalence will be illustrated with examples from the terminology used to define different types of system-bound legal professions and court structures, as well as with specific terms referring to particular areas of law, such as company law. The Cultural Embeddedness of Legal Texts

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Your Language, My Language or English? The Potential Language Choice in Communication Among Nationals of the European Union

Cited by 36 publications

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Issues of Identity and Power in a Greek-Cypriot Community

Issues of Identity and Power in a Greek-Cypriot Community

New variety or learner English?

The Cultural Embeddedness of Legal Texts

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