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English as a Global Language - Humor Across the Disciplines - Lecture Slides, Slides of Sociology

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English as a Global

Language

International Road Signs:

English as a Global Language

  • ¾ of the World’s Mail
  • ½ of the World’s technical & scientific journals
  • ½ of all newspapers
  • 80 % of the information in computers
  • All International Air Pilots
  • All International Sea Captains
  • Many movies, songs, and much business
  • ½ of European business deals
  • 7 of the Largest TV Broadcasters (CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, CBC, CNN, C-Span)
  • TV Televangelism of Christianity (McCrum 10)

Varieties of Global English, each

with its Own Peculiar Flavor

  • Deutschlish
  • Franglish (la langue du Coca-Cola)
  • Indian English
  • Japlish (man-shon vs. mai-homu,

basaburo, aisu-kurimu, mai-com [my

computer])

  • Russlish
  • Spanglish (McNeal 10, 38-39)

Competing Global Languages

  • Arabic
  • Russian (before the breakup of the

Soviet Union in Eastern Europe)

  • Mandarin
  • Spanish
  • French

Education Act of 1870: RP

  • Cockney (Cock’s Egg)
  • RP (Received Pronunciation)
  • Posh (Portside Out Starboard Home)
    • (McCrum 13-21)

Pin-Ups and Yank Magazine

  • Every issue of Yank Magazine featured

a pin-up to remind soldiers of the girls

back home.

  • A pin-up of Rita Hayworth is said to

have been taped to Fat Boy, the atomic

bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

  • Compare this with the movie Dr.

Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop

Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Atomic-Bomb Words (McCrum

Atomic Holocaust

Chain Reaction (cf. Vonnegut’s “Ice Nine”)

Fallout

Fireball

Fission

Fusion

Mushroom Cloud Test Site (NOTE: The possibility of nuclear proliferation was one of the causes of Postmodernism & Deconstructionism)

Korean and Vietnam Wars (McCrum 25-

Korean:

Brainwashing

Chopper (Helicopter)

Vietnam: Defoliate Domino Theory Escalation Firefight Friendly Fire Hawks & Doves

Vietnam: Moratorium Napalm Pacification Search and Destroy The Silent Majority (ct. the Vocal Minority)

David Ofgor, Attaché to the US

Embassy in Phnom Penh:

  • Talking to journalists:
  • “You always write it’s bombing,

bombing, bombing. It’s not bombing.

It’s air support.” (McCrum 27)

Valley-Girl/Surfer-Dude: Bitchin Dude For sure Goady Rad To the max Totally Tubular

Gay Speech: Gay Out of the closet Queer Queen

Women’s Speech: Ms. Letter carrier JOKE: Mannheim Germany  Personheim Gerpersony

Silicon Valley Words (California) (McCrum 30)

Artificial Intelligence

CD (Compact Disk)

DVD (Digital Video Disk)

Data Processing

Disk(ette)

Flash Drive

Hacker

Input

Interface Jump Drive Modem On-Line ROM (Read-Only Memory) Software, Hardware, Wetware Word Processor

Disadvantages of English as a Global Language

  • /š/  shoe, sugar, issue, mansion, mission, nation, suspicion, ocean, conscious, chaperon, schist, fuchsia, pshaw (spelled 13 ways).
  • Full, reduced, zero grades of consonants
  • Long, Short, -r, schwa, and zero grades of vowels
  • 15 different vowel phonemes
  • (/s/ /š/ /z/ /ž/)
    • (McCrum 42)

Advantages of English as a Global

Language

  • Natural Gender, not Grammatical Gender
  • Simplified Word Endings resulting in greater flexibility (N  V, etc.)
  • Teeming Vocabulary (80 % is not Anglo-Saxon) but rather: Arabic, Celtic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Scandinavian, Spanish, etc. (McCrum 43)