Globalization and the Future of German: With a Select Bibliography

The German language and its position in the world is under increasing pressure due to the growing importance of (American) English as the language of globalization. The articles deal with the national and international positions of German and English, language policies, the future of German as a language of science, German in the USA, the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of encountering a foreign language. The anthology presents critical views, which consider the world as being on its way to becoming a linguistic colony of the United States, as well as positions, which do not see any imminent danger to linguistic diversity and regard English as resource rather than as a threat.

Table of Contents:
Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Globalization- Threats and Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bernd Hüppauf Globalization and Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Past, Present, and Future of World English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 David Crystal English as Threat or Resource in Continental Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Robert Phillipson Global English- A New Lingua Franca or a New Imperial Culture? . . . 65 Hans Joachim Meyer English Rules the World. What Will Become of German? . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Rudolf Hoberg Language Policies in East and West. National Language Policies as a Response to the Pressures of Globalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Petra Braselmann The Impact of English on the Vocabulary and Grammatical Structure of German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 German as an Endangered Language? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Peter Eisenberg Does "Denglish" Dedifferentiate our Perceptions of Nature? The View of a Nature Lover and Language "Fighter" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139 Hermann H. Dieter Internationalizing Science and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155 German as an International Language of the Sciences - Recent Past and Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Ulrich Ammon The Future of German and Other Non-English Languages for Academic Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Konrad Ehlich Language and Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 The German Language and the Linguistic Diversity of Europe . . . . . . . 187 Wolfgang Thierse Language and National Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Andreas Gardt Yiddish and German: An On-Again, Off-Again Relationship - and Some of the More Important Factors Determining the Future of Yiddish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Joshua A. Fishman The Past and Future of the Pennsylvania German Language: Many Ways of Speaking German; Many Ways of Being American . . . . 229 David L. Valuska and William W. Donner German in the USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Language Policies of the Goethe-Institut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Nikky Keilholz-Rühle, Stephan Nobbe, and Uwe Rau The Kulturpolitik of German-Speaking Countries in the USA . . . . . . . . 253 John Lalande II Self-Inflicted Wounds? Why German Enrollments are Dropping . . . . . . 265 Robert C. Reimer Meeting the Challenge: The Future of German Study in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Helene Zimmer-Loew German in Wisconsin: Language Change and Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Peter Wagener Language and the Creative Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 The Seductive Aesthetics of Globalization: Semiotic Implications of Anglicisms in German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Prisca Augustyn Critically "Kanak": A Reimagination of German Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Yasemir Yildiz Globalization: A Look at the Positive Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 John M. Grandin Select Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

About the Author :
Andreas Gardt is Professor of German Studies at the University of Kassel, Germany. Bernd Hüppauf is Professor of German Studies at New York University, USA.