Santa Claus or Santa, in English, derives from the Dutch term ‘Sinter Klass’, which is culturally also called Saint Nicholaus. Its tradition remotes Nordic and Germanic traditions—places where it’s pretty cold during the year. As in the Protestant tradition, the older man, Saint Nicholaus, brings presents to kids for Christmas just as the three Kings… Leia mais What’s Brazilian Santa like?

The concept of the ‘language market’, proposed by Bourdieu (1998), is relevant to understanding the field of power relations imbricated in the constitution of the English language as a valuable linguistic capital and its configuration as a commodity in the globalized economic market. Bourdieu’s studies of the field of social sciences to power relations, hierarchization,… Leia mais Language Market

The globalization of English and its cultural, political, economic, and social implications have sparked discussion among linguists and researchers of this phenomenon. According to Pennycook (1994), “English teaching seems omnipresent in the world, playing a role everywhere on a grand global scale in the complexities of people’s lives”. For Kachru (1983), the imposition of the… Leia mais WORLDWIDE ENGLISH

The historical relations between the English language and globalization serve as a backdrop to understanding the different phases of this language known today as “global”. Both globalization and the spread of English have a long trajectory of time and space and, therefore, cannot be seen as “totally” recent phenomena but with dominant characteristics marked by… Leia mais GLOBALIZATION OF ENGLISH AND SOCIETIES

Today, English has taken on a significant status in the global economy. It is the language adopted in most international business transactions and by international organizations such as the World Bank and the OECD. Given this fact, I invite readers to briefly reflect on the constraints that favor the predominance of a standard contact language… Leia mais WHY IS ENGLISH A LINGUA FRANCA?