Essays about: "Eva Svenborn Johansson"

Found 1 essay containing the words Eva Svenborn Johansson.

  1. 1. "We are increasingly western rather than Soviet" : A qualitative study on attitudes to English in Lithuania

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Eva Svenborn Johansson; [2022]
    Keywords : English language; language attitudes; language ideologies; linguistic imperialism; Lithuania; Russification.;

    Abstract : The English language holds a status of a global Lingua Franca that is geographically and historically unique, and English dominance and the language ideologies surrounding it have been the subject of extensive research and discussions. Two contrasting viewpoints significant for these discussions are the idea of the global spread of English as a form of linguistic imperialism, and the idea of the global spread of English as a natural, and mostly positive, consequence of globalisation. READ MORE