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This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues. Based on research findings from cross-linguistic semantics, i
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EDITED BY CLIFF GODDARD
Minimal English for a Global World ‘What should be an effective and equitable communication order for our world? The established pattern of global communication reflects a largely superseded world of national economies contained within secure territorial boundaries, and validated by authorised national cultures. These stabilities of territory, economy and culture may always have been illusory but vast population mobility and widespread transnational connections today have seriously eroded the inherited pattern of global affairs. This important volume proposes a unique addition to the usual answers to this question: Minimal English, in addition multilingualism and English as a Lingua Franca. This volume is an important instalment in the conversation we must all have about how we talk to each other in our topsyturvy world. It shows the unique contribution that intercultural semantic analysis can offer to discussions about global communication. Combining insights from diplomacy, law, science and medicine with intercultural and linguistic analysis reveals new angles and prospects to thinking about the emerging communication system.’ —Joseph Lo Bianco, University of Melbourne, Australia ‘This is a timely, important, and significant contribution to our knowledge of meaning and language. It is timely because everywhere, we are finding that differences of meaning are active even when people use the same scripts of the same language; it is important because the approach in the book offers clarity for understanding those differences (as well as the commonalities); it is significant because the more enhanced understanding we are able to develop in uses of language and its various meanings, constructive paths to social betterment can be cleared – not always followed, but cleared if possible. This is a fine book for linguists, anthropologists, communication scholars, interculturalists, and others interested in addressing and developing these issues.’ —Donal Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Cliff Goddard Editor
Minimal English for a Global World Improved Communication Using Fewer Words
Editor Cliff Goddard School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science Griffith University Brisbane, QLD, Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-62511-9 ISBN 978-3-319-62512-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-62512-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017952172 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not i
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