English As A Dominant Language

ENGLISH, A DOMINANT LANGUAGE?

INTRODUCTION

English is a strong, well developed language with millions of speakers. This sentence reminds us the fact that English will become a dominant language.

Everything has a past and to know what will happen in the future we have to look the past.

The British Empire was the largest in history covering a quarter of the Earth’s land area, with population of over 450 million people. In that moment the rise of English, the colonies of England had it as an official language, its colonies had to speak English. One case is the American Empire, that this was called many years ago: the Thirteen Colonies.

The Thirteen Colonies had a very important role for the increase of English around the world. When the Thirteen Colonies became independent, they were very powerful, they had a lot of money and many other things. North America was in its “gold time”. Rapidly the Thirteen Colonies started to expand for around the world, carrying English them, therefore everybody knew English and start to speak it.

What is related to the rise of English?

The Thirteen Colonies were be the most powerful state in world in that time, so everybody had to speak the same language that they told. In that moment English was the official language in many countries, they started to talk it, and use it for business and communication, and we can see that in nowadays this is already happen.

FIRST ARGUMENT

According too many economists, cultural theorists, political and scientist. They are convinced that we will live a new world era.

We have entered a period in which language and communication will play a more central role than ever before in economics, political and cultural life. In the last years, English has demonstrated that over 687 million of people speak it and approximately 75 % percent of the bibliography, web pages, etc. are in English.

English is the language of a new way of communication and progress of our society. We are living a period of “not communication” we are using harmful activities to do that we want. According to this, a lot of people strongly believe that a global language has to appear.

The necessity of a global language has been seen frequently. The “key” of the progress is the communication (Crystal, 2001). And English can be “the key” of progress. Let’s thin it for a minute if all the people spoke the same language, for example, the scientist will exchange discoveries or researches, and in this way they will do more things than they do now.

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