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It argues that EYL arrives after a dramatic, global linguistic revolution driven by the rise of English, endangerment of languages, and the transformative arrival of Internet technology. 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 \n# Linguistic revolution\n\nI consider the EYL to be particularly timely because it has come at the end of a decade of dramatic andunprecedented linguistic revolution.I do not believe that this is too strong a word.A 'revolution'isany combination of events which produces a radical shift in consciousness or behaviour over arelatively short period of time,and this is what is currently taking place.In the context of a language,revolutions do not appear very often.In the history of English,for example,we might identify two,since the arrival of the language in Britain in the 5th century.First,in the early Middle Ages,there wasthe combination of linguistic developments and socio-political factors which changed Old English toMiddle English,with very different grammar,and an admixture of Romance elements that profoundlyaffected spelling and vocabulary -a revolution which took us,in effect,from Beowulfto Chaucer.Then there was the period which took us from Chaucer to Shakespeare,resulting in an Early ModernEnglish which was very different from its Middle English predecessor in grammar,sounds,andspelling,and characterized especially by the standardizing effect of printing and the cumulative impactof the Renaissance,with its vast influx of classical vocabulary.Since Shakespeare,the language hasdeveloped steadily,but its character has not been radically altered-as is evidenced by the fact that wecan go to a Shakespeare play and understand most of what we encounter.It is patently ‘the same'language-an intuition we do not have so comfortably when we encounter Chaucer,and not at allwhen we try to read Beowulf.  \nMany other languages have displayed their own periods of revolutionary change,but these occur atdifferent times and for different reasons.The wars,alliances,and political revolutions that causemassive social (and thus linguistic)change do not follow any shared or predictable timetable.It isunusual to find changes which are so broad in their implications that they affect groups of languages,and extremely rare to find changes which are so global that they affect all languages.Indeed,toillustrate the last point we have to alter the level of the illustration and refer to the arrival of new media-such as writing,printing,telephony,broadcasting -whose influence on the character of languageshas been pervasive.What makes the second half of the 20th century -and the 1990s in particular -ahighly significant period in the history of language is that we can find there a coming together of threemajor trends,each global in its implications,which cumulatively have fundamentally altered theworld's linguistic ecology.First,there has been the emergence of English as a genuinely globallanguage,and the accompanying development of new varieties of English around the world,whichunexpectedly has begun to produce a novel domain of plurilingualism.Second,there is the realizationthat huge numbers of languages are endangered or dying,which has resulted in a sense of crisis andfresh initiatives towards preservation and regeneration.And third,there is ","cbCaibzMWGFmV7BI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibzMWGFmV7BI","pdf",5511836,"English","# Linguistic revolution\n## English as a global language","[{\"question\":\"What central question does the paper ask about the European Year of Languages (EYL)?\",\"answer\":\"It asks why knowledge of more than one language matters and what the EYL can do to make plurilingualism an accepted norm, replacing reluctance with enthusiasm for language learning.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author consider the EYL especially timely?\",\"answer\":\"Because it comes after a decade of dramatic and unprecedented linguistic revolution, making the period particularly significant in the history of language.\"},{\"question\":\"What three global trends does the paper cite as transforming the world’s linguistic ecology?\",\"answer\":\"The emergence of English as a genuinely global language, recognition that many languages are endangered or dying, and the arrival of Internet technology as a new communication medium.\"}]","A Language Revolution - from Reluctance to Renaissance | PDF",1790581589,14]