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  Globalization and EFL/ESL Pedagogy in the Arab World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It was made to scorn the languages it sought to replace, and told the colonised peoples that mimicry of its primacy among languages was a necessary badge of their social mobility as well as their continued humiliation and subjection.
Thus, when we talk of 'mastery' of the Standard language, we must be conscious of the terrible irony of the world, that the English language itself was the language of the master, the carrier of his arrogance and brutality.
The domination of a people's language by the language of the colonizing nations was crucial to the domination of the mental universe of the colonized.
www.shakespeare.uk.net /journal/jllearn/1_2/zughoul.html   (11588 words)

  
 Too Many Deaths - Chapter 8
Through the mouth of Stephen in Portrait, Joyce claims that the English language is foreign to him, that it carries with it the constant reminder that he is its prisoner.
As it was in Ireland and Ngugi wa Thiongo's Kenya, in Hawai'i the English language was enforced by punishing children in the schools for speaking their language (Hawaiian was the dominant language of Hawai'i before the advent of the "government without citizens" of 1893).
They speak a language (and often only that language) enforced on their grandparents and great grandparents with the cane, with shaming, with soap in the mouth, with demeaning punishments.
www.greenmac.com /Gabrielle/Dissertation/p.htm   (8709 words)

  
 Top20Languages.com - Online Directory for Languages.
Language and linguistics resources for Asian languages including Japanese hiragana with vocabulary, a Korean linguistics glossary, Mandarin Chinese and Old English with romanization and transliteration.
Extensive database of the world's languages, organized/searchable by map, language family, country, and language name.
Estimates for the world's top 20 languages (given in millions) on the basis of the number of mother-tongue (first-language) speakers and population estimates for those countries where the language has official status.
www.top20languages.com   (1041 words)

  
 CLIN 2005 - Abstracts
Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Natural Language Processing, Rens Bod
Automatic Diacritic Placemenent using Memory-Based Learning: a Gikuyu Language Case Study, Guy De Pauw, Peter W. Wagacha and Pauline W. Githinji
Ontology and Language: Towards a Strongly-Typed Meaning Algebra, Walid S. Saba
www.science.uva.nl /events/CLIN2005/Program/Abstracts/index.html   (507 words)

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