2008年Mini-lecture(4/7)

For example, it became a lingua franca in India.or a variety of indigenous languages made the use of any one of them as a whole country system problematic. So the imposition of English as the one language of administration helps maintain the colonizers’ control and power, thus English traveled around many parts of the world in those days.And long after that colonial power has faded away,it is still widely used as a main or at least an institutional language in countries as far apart as Jamaica and Pakistan, Uganda and New Zealand.That is the first factor. Now the second major factor in the spread of English has been the spread of commerce throughout the world.The spread of international commerce has taken English along with it.This is the 20th century phenomenon of globalization.