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Julielai Posted 21 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Sociolinguistics and the English language

I haven't seen a thread on sociolinguistics. May I start one?

As English becomes the international language to learn,
will non-native speakers' perception towards their first language change because of their need to learn English? Will English become the "cooler" language to learn? I'm seeing some evidence of this back in my hometown.

Any thoughts?
  

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Have a feeling this is happening everywhere. Certainly it is obvious in Malta especially with youngsters. Please go ahead it sounds interesting.

— David

  • Have a feeling this is happening everywhere.
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  • Please go ahead it sounds interesting.
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Have a feeling this is happening everywhere. Certainly it is obvious in Malta especially with youngsters. Please go ahead it sounds interesting.
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Hello

I'm an English learner from Japan. I took part in a Japanese learning forum for a while. The language used there was English and there were many young Japanese people who wrote quite good English. But what I was curious about was many of those Japanese participants thought the Japanese grammar in the frame of English grammar. Japanese and English are quite different in constructio
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What I'm seeing is a post-colonial backlash. Hong Kong is suffering from a "linguistic identity crisis". Chinese is becoming more important after the 1997 takeover, and HK citizens can't quite make up their mind what the role of English is. Youngsters stake a lot of their pride on their English (it's the prestigious language), but they don't bother to learn it well.

Interestingly, fr
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In Japanese schools, students are taught English grammar a lot, but little Japanese grammar. Consequently some of the (brightest) students tend to analyze and describe Japanese sentences along the concepts of English grammar.

In England, too, it's usual for your first in-depth experience of grammar to occur during the learning of a second language. Then you re-apply
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(How do I quote? I don't see the "quote" button)

My secondary school made us learn Chinese grammar as part of our O-level preparation. Totally pointless exercise. What was the point of learning to apply terminology back to Chinese sentences that I know by heart?

And yes, I see the influence of English on Chinese. Chinglish (Chinese-style English) and "Chengese" (English-styl
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Have you seen this thread, Julielai?

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Have you seen this thread, Julielai?

Hope this works.

What do the Japanese grammarians say about the "Anglicization" of Japanese, Paco-san?
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