Claude Hagège at MIT, 2001 - English as Global Language: Real or Imagined Threat?

Professor Claude Hagège, French linguist and renowned polyglot, presents the second of two lectures at MIT, sponsored by the Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies at MIT. In his talk titled “English as Global Language: Real or Imagined Threat?”, Hagège reviews the processes in recent history by which English has taken hold as a major international language, and considers its localized evolutions and influences along the way. Prof. Hagège holds the Chair of Linguistic Theory at the Collège de France and is the director at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He was elected to the Collège de France in 1988 and received several awards for his work, including the Prix de l'Académie Française and the CNRS Gold Medal. Please Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/c/MITVideoProd...