Comments on: Monolingual media beat-up https://languageonthemove.com/monolingual-media-beat-up/ Multilingualism, Intercultural communication, Consumerism, Globalization, Gender & Identity, Migration & Social Justice, Language & Tourism Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Guo Jian https://languageonthemove.com/monolingual-media-beat-up/#comment-9102 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 02:34:49 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=11439#comment-9102 “Maintaining standards” is really ridiculous as for matters of culture and language!

When trying to keep a high standard in the whole world, I believe the first thing is to learn to respect and communicate. Any mono form or tyranny is bound to fall in such a multilingual and multicultural planet(aliens will speak one day).Besides,history teaches us a lot and nobody should ignore.It’s the media&press that should pay attention to it’s standard!

It’s quite thought-provoking and thank you for your hard work,Dear Prof. Piller!!

]]> By: Rosemary Kuwahata https://languageonthemove.com/monolingual-media-beat-up/#comment-9091 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:10:04 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=11439#comment-9091 What a sad farce! Once again mass media fuels and fans widespread hysterics among people who know very little about what they are condemning.

]]> By: Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江 https://languageonthemove.com/monolingual-media-beat-up/#comment-9090 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:03:36 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=11439#comment-9090 I remember asking the same question to an applied linguist and I kind of draw on her response to date: stick to what we do best, i.e., doing research and training the next generation of students and researchers.

]]> By: Christof Demont-Heinrich https://languageonthemove.com/monolingual-media-beat-up/#comment-9088 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:17:57 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=11439#comment-9088 Yikes,
Hadn’t even heard about this, and I consume a lot of news, though I confess that I stay away from Fox News. It’s amazing that monolingualism is held up as the standard to which all ought to aspire. It’s actually profoundly “un-American” when you think about it, the argument that less is more, as in less knowledge, less (linguistic) ability is actually “better.” Of course, this type of thing isn’t just confined to the U.S.. The turn-things-on-their-head-so-that-less-knowledge-less-ability-fewer-opportunities perspective on life, and the world in general, is all part of the ideology of mainstreaming everyone to the cultural norms and values of the dominant fundamental group, in this case, old (balding?) white guys. If only I, or we, could figure out how to persuade large numbers of people from dominant fundamental groups that they have much to gain by learning more about, and from, less powerful groups, including, of course, their languages, then we could turn things around. Of course, I’m still grappling with how to do this — any ideas?

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