English language and linguistic globalization

Habib Kiani Raouf¹

1) MA in applied linguistics, Proffssor of Jahaad Daaneshgahi, Zahedan, Iran

Publication : 2nd International Conference on Management and Humanities(2icmhconf.com)
Abstract :
In recent years, the term ‘English as a lingua franca’ (ELF) has emerged as a way of referring to communication in English between speakers with different first languages. Since roughly only one out of every four users of English in the world is a native speaker of the language (Crystal 2003), most ELF interactions take place among ‘non-native’ speakers of English Although this does not preclude the participation of English native speakers in ELF interaction, what is distinctive about ELF is that, in most cases, it is ‘a ‘contact language’ between persons who share neither a common native tongue nor a common (national) culture, and for whom English is the chosen foreign language of communication’ (Firth 1996: 240).In this paper we aim to discuss on the reasons that caused the English language to find his way as the common language of international affairs from five viewpoints: enrichment of language itself, population of speakers, political and economic power, official language of many nations, International trade, language of science, mass media, computing and published journals and tourism.
Keywords : lingua franca linguistic globalization English language