Mahabad abdullah; Peshkawt Muhammed
Abstract
This research, which is entitled "Globalisation and Death of Language", sheds light on the impacts of globalisation of human community on the increase of the death of languages. ...
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This research, which is entitled "Globalisation and Death of Language", sheds light on the impacts of globalisation of human community on the increase of the death of languages. The emergence of industrialisation along with economic growth, migration from villages to cities for the purpose of working, the development of facilities in terms of traffic among rural and urban areas, means of communication, scientific and technological advances, growing interests in culture and education as well as many other reasons have changed the human community a lot and led it to globalisation, encircling it in a small scope, trespassing geographical limitations among various ethnic groups and nations, bringing different human civilizations into a clash with each other, and language, as a part of culture and the means of expresing ideas and communications among various societies, has received a big deal of thess changes and struggles, and this has led to the control of some languages supported by the factors behind globalisation and disadvantages of other languages, and finally their death. So, the research is divided into two parts; the first part tackles changes in language and factors behind those changes, as well as globalisation and its role in empowerment of some specific languages over the others. The second part different kinds of language, in terms of dead and active ones, have been discussed, moreover; the ways in which languages die out and the impacts of globalisation on them have shown. In the end, the conclusions and the references have been presented
