Friday, May 27, 2011

The language of African literature and world Englishes

The opinion between Thiong'o and Kachru is contrary.
Rently, many minor or tribal languages have been more and more disappeared, because this is related to language hegemony, especially English have been leading this trend in the world. Thiong'o idea reflects this trend, and he
says the the cause comes back to the colonized period, and claims recover their unique identity with literature.
On the contrary to this, Kachru sees the advantages or strengths of English after globalization.
Each opinion is each right. However, I think we need the harmony between
two opinions in our life, especially in Korea. We need to keep our uinque
identity as Korean, but we need to develop our economy through trade. English became world language in the world as commercial language. We have
to accept this situation, never be lagged in the world trend.
Therefore, we should try to harmonize two opinions to be exist as Korea in the world, to survive as Korean.

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