Rhetorical Analysis
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Prof. Soren Hammerschmidt
ENG 108
09/19/2014
Name : Batoul Bumejdad
Across cultures, English is the word
These days, we can clearly notice that globalization is being a main aspect between countries around the world. Language is the basic factor for communication between cultures, economy, and people. In fact language is the human capacity for achieve and successful systems of communication. It is really interesting to think about what is a global language? How is it useful for us, how we get benefit from it? How important language is for our future and us?. Global language is a basic common world language that can be spoken internationally everywhere. A lot of people like to chose a global language to use it as a second language.
“Across cultures, English is the word” is an interesting research article that I found at (nytimes.com), this article clarify the relation ship between the global language and English language. Also, It presents the global language and how it is very important in our life to communicate around the world. It also shows the English as a global language., how could it help us, how much is that language needed, and is it necessary to be used in every where, every place around us in this world? The main goal of this article is to make people learn more about the English language and how public it is around the world also how is it effective as a global language.
Seth Medan’s, author of the New York Times article “Across cultures, English is the word.” He writes this article aiming to convince people who might not agree with his perspective about English as a global language. Mostly for people who were educated with high degree and do not agree with the idea about the global language.
The thesis focuses on how English language is the dominant language around the world. Having a deep faith that English is the nearby language to the people in everywhere. English language had prove it self globally, we can notice that it became number one language as widely spoken. My rhetorical analysis In This article contains three different kinds of persuasive appeals, logo, ethos and pathos.
Pathos has an important role in this article. If we take the idea of the global language there will be three influence factors that support this subject: amount of people that using English as a basic or second language. The amount of countries that are using this language in society area and business also economy, amount of countries that are using English as a basic language. We can see that history prove how English became so important and strong because the amount of people that are using it as a first language and some of them as a second language; and how does it affect the economy around the world. The article shows how English language dominates the world this generation. And identified a clear explanation about the global language. The writer provided some examples to support the article. In this article, the nuclear war was mentioned in a way that seems for the eventual perfection of a translation machine that would decide a shared language is not needed. This thing may let a lot of people to decide to avoid sharing common language around the world. Many contemporary linguistics agreed that linguistic evolution will last to take its course throughout the centuries and the English language will be like the Latin or French that could eventually die. Nevertheless, this issue will cause a lot of economic, social and trade losses. It will make English language despair and will not influence the world in a positive way. As an example, we can notice that business around the world is dominant by English language.
David Crystal, the author of "English as a Global Language," says "This is the first time we actually have a language spoken genuinely globally by every country in the world," most people fully agree with that because we finally found a language that bond us, make us communicate with each other easily, and make us understand every thing. For example I am an Arabic student coming from an Arabic country that its main language there is Arabic. However, we use English as a second language, which is a strong factor because now I study in the United Stated. I can understand every thing and deal and talk with people here easily. The reason for that is I studied English language because English language is being worldwide factor that uniform the countries second language. Across culture, there should be global language to encourage communication, Economy, business, social priorities and a lot of other things.
"You have too many words in English," said Jean-Paul Nerrière a simple sentence that shows how logically English language is the key for the world. A native speaker of English might need to become bilingual in his own language to converse with other speakers of global English. English and globalization have spread hand in hand through the world. Even if chines, Arabic or Spanish are becoming famous because of the internet and communication factor still we can see that English dominate and they need to use it as a second language. United states has almost 20% of the world speaking English, which is not a small percentage to consider. Consequently, the English language no longer "belongs" to its native speakers but to the world. For example, the writer wrote about a recent study resulted that the Queen's English - the language as spoken by the queen of England - has evolved over the past 50 years. Its becoming slightly less upper-class and slightly more popular. Although the future evolution of the language, scholars say, its more likely to belong to the broken-English speakers of far-off lands. Tomorrow: The world's top universities are changing into English, but the move is not without its complications.
