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Sociolinguistics --- English language --- Dialectology --- Anglais (langue) --- Mondialisation --- Intercultural communication. --- Étude et enseignement --- Variation linguistique --- Globalization. --- Variation --- #KVHA:Taalkunde; Engels --- #KVHA:Vergelijkende linguïstiek; Engels --- Intercultural communication --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Globalization --- Anthropological aspects --- Mondialisation. --- Étude et enseignement. --- Variation linguistique. --- Germanic languages

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This book examines the ways in which English is conceptualised as a global language in Japan, and considers how the resultant language ideologies – drawn in part from universal discourses; in part from context-specific trends in social history – inform the relationships that people in Japan have towards the language. The book analyses the specific nature of the language’s symbolic meaning in Japan, and how this meaning is expressed and negotiated in society. It also discusses how the ideologies of English that exist in Japan might have implications for the more general concept of ‘English as a global language’. To this end it considers the question of what constitutes a ‘global’ language, and how, if at all, a balance can be struck between the universal and the historically-contingent when it comes to formulating a theory of English within the world.

English language --- English philology --- Second language acquisition. --- Germanic philology --- Germanic languages --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Study and teaching --- Japanese speakers. --- Globalization. --- Second language acquisition --- Globalization --- Study and teaching&delete& --- Japanese speakers --- J5492.31 --- Japan: Language -- other languages -- European -- United Kingdom, Great Britain, England, English --- English as a global language. --- English in Japan. --- English. --- Global English. --- Global language. --- Japan. --- Language ideologies . --- Sociolinguistics. --- World Englishes.

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Will language as we know it cease to exist? What could this mean for the way we live our lives? Shining a light on the technology currently being developed to revolutionise communication, The Future of Language distinguishes myth from reality and superstition from scientifically-based prediction as it plots out the importance of language and raises questions about its future. From the rise of artificial intelligence and speaking robots, to brain implants and computer-facilitated telepathy, language and communications expert Philip Seargeant surveys the development of new digital 'languages', such as emojis, animated gifs and memes, and investigates how conventions of spoken and written language are being modified by new trends in communication. From George Orwell's fictional predictions in Nineteen Eighty-Four to the very real warnings of climate activist Greta Thunberg, Seargeant explores language through time, traversing politics, religion, philosophy, literature, and of course technology, in the process. Tracing how previous eras have imagined the future of language, from the Bible to the works H. G. Wells, and from Star Wars to Star Trek, the book reveals how perfecting language and communication has always been a vital component of utopian dreams of the future. Questioning the potential ramifications of recent and future developments in communication on society and its ideals, The Future of Language is a no holds barred investigation into the state of civilisation and the impact that changes in language could have on our lives.

Communication and technology --- Communication --- Language and languages --- Language and languages. --- Communication and technology. --- Langage et langues. --- Communication et technologie. --- Technologies de l'information et de la communication. --- Technological innovations --- Technological innovations. --- Communication studies --- Sociolinguistics --- Impact of science & technology on society --- Computational linguistics. --- linguistics

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This Element examines the way that Boris Johnson's government handled the early months of the Covid crisis in the UK, with a particular focus on the role of rhetoric and communication in enacting their leadership strategy.

Communication in politics. --- COVID-19 (Disease) --- Government policy --- Johnson, Boris. --- Great Britain --- Politics and government

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