Linguistic Imperialism

Linguistic imperialism, as we can notice nowadays, is affecting most of the countries of the world in many aspects. First of all we can see in education, as an example, how English has become the most powerful language of the world. In the society that we live, English is the most spoken language of the planet, which results in the fact that speaking English has to be a common thing for every single country, and that besides of that all the countries are being forced to learn English, just so that the countries can be part of the international relationships and agreements. What this fact means, is that speaking English, or the fact of being born in a country that has English as the mother tongue, will already give a person more chances to be more successful than a person that does not speak English. Because of this we can say that there are many countries that have so much knowledge that other countries do not have, and that those countries are not receiving recognition just because of the fact that they do not have English as their mother tongue, or they do not even speak English.

 An example that proves this idea is the fact that in all the countries of the world, individuals have to have a certain level of English skills to get a job. Besides of that when it comes to media and internet, most of the media is in English, and all the world accepts it. We cannot blame on any English speaker native country for this fact, but what we could do is to consider if accepting this fact will benefit us.

My conclusion is that nowadays the English has such a power that can dominate the whole world, since its influence reaches every part of the world. Besides of that it is important to also mention that the rest of the countries that do not have English as mother tongue have to do something about it not fearing to reject being part of the empire that this language has built in such a short period of time.

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In this blog post I am going to analyze an article called Food Crisis in Sahel, which belongs to the company Oxfam. We can notice that this is truly an article that has been posted in the website of the webpage, since we can see that the text appears in the website of the NGO. 

As we can see, the article is informing the readers about the economical problems that certain countries from Africa are constantly facing. This problems are mainly due to the climate, that has ruined food crops many years in the past as well as it is ruining food crops nowadays. Due to this, many individuals do not have enough food and water, so these countries are facing big problems of food and water shortages. Besides of informing the people about the situation, the writer is also trying to persuade the audience about the bad situation that these countries are facing. Therefore the target audience is the people of medium class that is able to help these individuals in need.

The structure of the article is made in such a way, in which a person can fully understand the message of the article. The writer first talks about the situation that these countries faced in the past and the consequences that it had. After that he or she explains what would be needed to change this situation, and what would be the solution to avoid it to occur on the future. Finally the writer tells the audience what people could do to change the situation.

Each section is important, because without reading the first section we would not be able to fully understand the second section, so the writer in this text gives us the context in the first section. Besides of that in the first section we can find the basic information that helps us to understand the second section, so it can be considered the introduction explaining what are the thing that are going to be discussed in the article.

 Besides of that, in the second section the writer fully explains the idea that he or she wants to transmit, explaining the current situation of the countries, and explaining what would be needed to avoid this bad and sad situation that these countries have to face.

Finally in the third section we find a sort of conclusion in which the writer gives us the last information, talking about, what things in the project have already been achieved, encouraging people to support the project and, encouraging people to believe that there is hope for these countries if people knows more about how the situation is nowadays.

Furthermore the persuasive language has an important role in this article. We can notice that this article has Ethos, Pathos and Logos.

We have Ethos because as we can see the article has credibility since the NGO Oxfam is the organization that is posting the information. Pathos is involved since it appeals to emotion through explaining how sad and bad the situation in these poor countries is, and lastly it also has Logos since the text gives us evidence of the issue, it presents numbers and real facts that can be trusted, so the information is clearly being displayed.