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Language is one of the chief glories of the nation’s now and in centuries before. A language helps people communicate and unite and if it is a lingua franca, the functions and the obligations of any language are bound to magnify. Richard Malcaster, an English grammarian, in 1582, speculated the future of English language by saying that English language was of “small reach, stretching no further than this island of ours, nay, not there over all.” Today, English language has reached far corners of the world, beyond that island, into the inlands. This language is used in myriad contexts around the world, as the first, second and foreign language of billions, the official language of numerous nations and a multitude of international events. Having become the lingua franca of the modern globalized world, English is riding on the crest of globalization. It’s a status that is coveted and cursed at the same time. Many like to accept its role as an ambassador of global harmony and prosperity with a big pinch of salt. Its proposed native standards are not an exception to skeptical acceptance and increasingly, the question is being asked that what should be considered as “standard” for a language which is fulfilling the communicative needs of not just one or two nations but of one third population of the world?
Lubna Farhan Ali. (2018) GLOBALIZATION OR STANDARDIZATION: EXPLORING ENGLISH’S CENTRE OF GRAVITY, Journal of Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary Research, Volume 7, Issue 2.
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