Rhetoricl devices
An example of this rhetorical device can be seen in the following quotation:
"A Russian, a Korean, and a Mexican walk into a bar. How do they communicate?"
What is a Rhetorical question?
This language will most likely never become an international lingua Franca
What is Chinese/Manderin?
How many people are estimated to speak English by 2020?
2 billion people
What does it mean when we say English is Lingua Franca?
What is a universal means of communication between groups of people who speak different languages?
An example of this rhetorical device can be seen in the following quotation:
“But Mandarin poses no threat to English as the world’s bridge language”
What is a Metaphor?
This is the language Mark Zuckerberg made some remarks in when visiting Beijing recently.
What is Mandarin?
What does it mean that English is the language of scared popular culture?
English is the language of most international music, movies and sports.
This is the only official language of ASEAN, the regional grouping of Southeast Asian nations.
What is English?
An example of this rhetorical device can be seen in the following quotation:
"Fluency in Mandarin will always be helpful for foreigners doing business in China, much like mastery of Portuguese will give you a leg up in Brazil.”
What is a simile?
This language was Lingua Franca and the language of science in USSR
What is Russian?
Almost a quarter of the earth, and about 1/5 of the worlds population.
How much did the British Empire cover?
How was the English language spread across the globe?
The British Empire.
An example of this rhetorical device can be seen in the following quotation:
“There is no gender in English as there are in Romance languages. There are no class or generational distinctions baked into the language”
What is an Anaphora?
This language was the last alternative to English in the race to become the world's lingua franca
What is French?
What does it mean that English is a neutral language?
This language was the worlds Lingua Franca of medieval and renaissance Europe.
Latin
An example of this rhetorical device can be seen in the following quotation:
“Thanks to the British Empire, native English speakers are strategically sprinkled across the globe.”
What is alliteration?
What is Portuguese?
What are the bad news for Americans/brits and other countries that have English as a first language?
They think they do not need to learn a second language, because almost every individual from another country already will understand them. However, this will be a disadvantage in a globalized labor force – because everyone else will speak it too!
Will Mandarin become the Lingua Franca and why?
No. There are many reasons why.
1. China exists in a bubble --> has it's own separate internet.
2. The Manderin language is too hart for outsiders to learn fluently.