%0 Journal Article %1 rajagopalan2009world %A Rajagopalan, Kanavillil %B English Today %D 2009 %I Cambridge University Press %K engleski-jezik latinski-jezik %N 2 %P 49-54-- %R DOI: 10.1017/S0266078409000194 %T ‘World English’ and the Latin analogy: where we get it wrong %U https://www.cambridge.org/core/article/world-english-and-the-latin-analogy-where-we-get-it-wrong/B90E962695E43935BBEA703D7E1CF7F3 %V 25 %X Will World English go the way of Latin? The phrase ‘Latin analogy’ was, it seems, coined by McArthur (1987), who distinguished a pessimistic or what he called ‘Babelesque’, perspective from an optimistic and a neutral (or pragmatic) perspectives to the comparison. The comparison continues to be made even today and generally it comes with a dire warning: the days of English as an international language, or a lingua franca for peoples from different parts of the world, are numbered. It will, sooner or later, break up into a number of different, mutually incomprehensible languages just the way good old Latin did. What is worse, in some cases this apprehension seems only to grow with the passage of time.

@article{rajagopalan2009world, abstract = {Will World English go the way of Latin? The phrase ‘Latin analogy’ was, it seems, coined by McArthur (1987), who distinguished a pessimistic or what he called ‘Babelesque’, perspective from an optimistic and a neutral (or pragmatic) perspectives to the comparison. The comparison continues to be made even today and generally it comes with a dire warning: the days of English as an international language, or a lingua franca for peoples from different parts of the world, are numbered. It will, sooner or later, break up into a number of different, mutually incomprehensible languages just the way good old Latin did. What is worse, in some cases this apprehension seems only to grow with the passage of time.}, added-at = {2021-11-20T18:32:34.000+0100}, author = {Rajagopalan, Kanavillil}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d495946ac9e606a86efceffe8e99a310/braco}, booktitle = {English Today}, description = {‘World English’ and the Latin analogy: where we get it wrong | English Today | Cambridge Core}, doi = {DOI: 10.1017/S0266078409000194}, interhash = {3e1c6663cec2c2a5366ec67196f98b4a}, intrahash = {d495946ac9e606a86efceffe8e99a310}, issn = {02660784}, keywords = {engleski-jezik latinski-jezik}, number = 2, pages = {49-54--}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, timestamp = {2021-11-20T18:32:34.000+0100}, title = {‘World English’ and the Latin analogy: where we get it wrong}, url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/article/world-english-and-the-latin-analogy-where-we-get-it-wrong/B90E962695E43935BBEA703D7E1CF7F3}, volume = 25, year = 2009 }