The fall of language in the age of English
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The fall of language in the age of English
Columbia University Press , EBSCO [distributor], c2015
- : e-book
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- タイトル別名
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Nihongo ga horobiru toki : eigo no seiki no naka de
日本語が亡びるとき : 英語の世紀の中で
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Published simultaneously in print version
Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but also raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge, yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity.Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in the globalized world of the Internet, English is fast becoming the sole common language of humanity. The process is unstoppable, and striving for total language equality is delusional and yet, particular kinds of knowledge can be gained only through writings in specific languages.Mizumura calls these writings  texts" and their ultimate form  literature." Only through literature, and more fundamentally through the diverse languages that give birth to a variety of literatures, can we nurture and enrich humanity. Incorporating her own experiences as a writer and a lover of language, and embedding a parallel history of Japanese, Mizumura offers an intimate look at the phenomena of individual and national expression.
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