Robert Burchfield, quoted in Robert Phillipson, Linguistic Imperialism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), 5. See also Alastair Pennycook, The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language (New York: Routledge, 2013).
Robert B. Kaplan, “English – Accidental Language of Science?” in The Dominance of English as a Language of Science: Effects on Other Languages and Language Communities, ed. Ulrich Ammon (Berlin: Mouten de Gruyter, 2001), 9–10.
Edward Behr, Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? (London: New English Library Ltd., 1985).
Rebecca Saunders, “Lost in Translation: Expressions of Human Suffering, the Language of Human Rights, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” located here →.
See, for example, →.
Tom Phillips, “Trump anti-China tweet gives Rex Tillerson a fresh wall to climb,” The Guardian, March 18, 2017 →.
Donald J. Trump, Twitter, March 17, 2017, 9:07 p.m.: “North Korea is behaving very badly. They have been ‘playing’ the United States for years. China has done little to help!” Perhaps he means that China has done little to help North Korea “play” the US.
Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), 178.
Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense,” in The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings, trans. Ronald Speirs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 146.
Richard Rorty, interview with Noëlle McAfee, for Austin at Issue, 1997, located here →.
Richard Rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Volume 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 175–96.
Richard Rorty, “Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality,” in Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 175.
Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Obama Doctrine,” in The Atlantic, April 2016 →.
Interestingly, one of Donald Trump’s grandchildren learned Chinese from her nanny. See →.
Michael Stubbs, quoted in Sinfree Makoni, “In Response to New Englishes,” Per Linguam 8, no. 1, (1992): 6.
Quoted in Phillipson, Linguistic Imperialism, 167.
Martin Heidegger, “Letter on ‘Humanism’,” trans. Frank A. Capuzzi, in Pathmarks, ed. William McNeill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 239.
Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, and Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Harper, 1971), 144.
Edward Sapir, “Language,” in Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality, ed. David G. Mandelbaum (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949), 10.
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (London: Pluto Press, 1986), 8.
Njabulo S. Ndebele, “The English Language and Social Change in South Africa,” in Rediscovery of the Ordinary (Johannesburg: UKZN Press, 2006), 116.
Article 50 of the “Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court,” located at →.
“In order to fully participate at all levels within the organization (The United Nations) English appears to be a minimum requirement … A practice has emerged in which English has become the dominant default code.” Lisa McEntee-Atalanis, “Multilingualism and the United Nations: Diplomatic Baggage or Passport to Success?” in The Multilingual Challenge: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, eds. Ulrike Jessner-Schmid and Claire J. Kramsch (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2015), 314–15. See also “Plea to UN: ‘More Spanish please’,” BBC News, June 21, 2001 →.
Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943, located at →.
Richard Rorty, “The contingency of language,” in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 15.
Nigel Farage speaking at Donald Trump’s 2017 CPAC political conference in the US. Online here →.
Phillipson, Linguistic Imperialism, 76.
Pierre Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power, ed. John B. Thompson, trans. Gino Raymond and Matthew Adamson (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991), 51.
Mizuho Aoki, “English heads for elementary school in 2020 but hurdles abound,” Japan Times, September 5, 2016 →.
David Rothkopf, “In praise of cultural imperialism?” Foreign Policy 107 (Summer 1997): 45.
For example, the Chinese government’s “Chronology of Human Rights Violations of the United States in 2016,” located here →. Because its provenance is China and Chinese, this critique of American ideology, however accurate, has little to no global influence.
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, quoted in Sources of Indian Tradition, eds. Wm. Theodore de Bary et al. (Dehli: Motilal Banarsidass, 1963), 709.
Phillipson, Linguistic Imperialism, viii.
Ibid., 189.
Quoted in Makoni, “In Response to New Englishes,” 8.
Thomas S. Mullaney, “America’s Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer,” The Atlantic, September 14, 2016 →.
Rorty, “Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality,” 177.
Karl Simms, Paul Ricoeur (London: Routledge, 2003), 50, 49. See also Paul Ricoeur, The Conflict of Interpretations (London: Athenaeum Press Ltd, 2000), 452–53.
Rorty, interview with Noëlle McAfee.
Rorty, “Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality,” 184.