One reaction to these changing conditions, particularly the hegemony of English and the concomitant decline in other languages, has been to take to the ramparts with the old tools of modernity. Hence, the way forward for some has been to focus a critique on English as a neoliberal and imperialistic language while arguing for support for other languages through a framework of linguistic human rights(Phillipson, 2009). From this neo-habermasian position, the quandary of late modernity is not in modernity itself but rather where it went off the rails in recent times. The problem, therefore, is the manipulation of modernity, not its epistemologies. An alternative tack, how ever, has been to ask whether the ways we think about languages, either as a result of changing social conditions or ... (查看原文)
One reaction to these changing conditions, particularly the hegemony of English and the concomitant decline in other languages, has been to take to the ramparts with the old tools of modernity. Hence, the way forward for some has been to focus a critique on English as a neoliberal and imperialistic language while arguing for support for other languages through a framework of linguistic human rights(Phillipson, 2009). From this neo-habermasian position, the quandary of late modernity is not in modernity itself but rather where it went off the rails in recent times. The problem, therefore, is the manipulation of modernity, not its epistemologies. An alternative tack, how ever, has been to ask whether the ways we think about languages, either as a result of changing social conditions or ... (查看原文)
0 有用 Redwolf 2021-05-09 00:02:59
太强了被教授推荐慕名而来，基本上解决了我所有的疑惑并提出了更多我不懂的问题，文字也并不是很晦涩，总之就是非常强。