Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Politics: Will English Rule the World?

Politics: Will English Rule the World?

Although members of the E.U. value its practicality and the African National Congress calls it indispensable, not everyone agrees that English should dominate the global dialogue. In this program, Thomas Patterson, of the Kennedy School of Government; Nicholas Ostler, of the Foundation for Endangered Languages; the president of CNN International; advocates and opponents of the English-only movement in America; and others debate the value of English as an international political language while coming to terms with the likely extinction of nondominant languages in America and abroad. Can diversity and identity be retained in a world of fewer languages? (54 minutes)

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Item#: BVL29424
Copyright date: ©2001
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-7872-1

Part of the Series : Beyond Babel: English, the Language Rising from the Masses


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