Such a brilliant lecture professor! Thank you very much for your effort and for the simplicity and clearness that you expose these difficult topics
@lastprince91994 жыл бұрын
As a black person myself, I thank you for such valuable lecture on British/European colonialism. What really puzzles me though is that despite colonialism was an aggressive action at a global scale with severe damages to colonized populations, it is not taught in any British school that I am aware of! From a linguistic point of view I think English played a central role in what I call the systematic "linguistic cleansing" of other languages. In a number of colonized societies (possibly in French dominated ones) people were not allowed to use their native languages.
@MartinHilpert4 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for your comment, Telal. I'd like to point to the exchange of arguments between Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (who views English as a killer language) and Salikoko Mufwene (who criticizes that position from a postcolonial perspective). Links below. Skutnabb-Kangas: books.google.ch/books?id=yR5mspS2kpoC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Mufwene: mufwene.uchicago.edu/publications/globalization-killerLanguages.pdf
@wyrmbooty4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video. This is an incredibly important aspect of the modern state of English (and many other European languages), and yet it is too often glossed over by both schools and universities (in my personal experience). I hope that I one day I will no longer have to correct people who believe that English (or Russian, or French, etc.) is so wide-spread because it is somehow """""better""""" than other languages.
@MartinHilpert4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the comment! My experience is the same, but I am optimistic that things can and will change.
@sabbirhasan74733 жыл бұрын
Very resourceful lecture with a sharpe attitude. Thank you very much professor. I would love to give a information not necessarily correction. The British colonized what is now called Bangladesh first 1757 and gradually the rest of India & Pakistan. Everyone always mention India and sometimes Pakistan but never Bangladesh although we were the worst victim of British colonization.
@Francinefearles3 жыл бұрын
This is a really great lecture!! I appreciate the linguist component presented here. I am Canadian Métis/plains Cree. The ignorance surrounding Canada's colonial legacy is rampant, many people are simply unaware and apathetic. For some , deeply embedded "White Fragility" prevents them from truly being able to assume a real and meaningful role in an alliance with Indigenous peoples to decolonize. Thank-you for your excellent and succinct Language/Colonialism lesson!
@MartinHilpert3 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for your comment, Francine!
@juliewilliamson6554 Жыл бұрын
This series has been so helpful for my sabbatical work creating curriculum for my ESL students on World Englishes. Thank you so much for your expertise and sensitivity to the topic.
@MartinHilpert Жыл бұрын
Thank you Julie!
@umgangssprachler Жыл бұрын
Colonialism as well as imperialism have still been alive. The russian federation is a case in point. It's still deluded by its insane ambition to return the former U.S.S.R. or russian empire to life. And this ambition ignited today's war in Ukraine. The above-300-year colonial policy of russia has affected the Ukrainian language, given birth to Surzhyk, a clumsy mixture of russian and Ukrainian, and led to sociolinguistic problems in Ukraine we're trying to handle now.
@sundusaljadid7411 Жыл бұрын
Thanks from the Middle East. Colonialism still exists in 2022, take a look at Palestine. Thanks Professor
@elisangelasouza16032 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing. I am a MA - PPGE - student in Brazil, and my dissertation is about the discourses that are "in" the English teachers. Unfortunately we still have colonial voices in what we do here, in our practices, teachings ... This video will be a great contribution to my theorical chapter in dissertation.
@elisangelasouza16032 жыл бұрын
Hey, again! So, in Brazil we are changing some "names", replacing "age of descovering" for "age of invasion"; "Mother country" for the thieves/robbers/intruders/killers.; Plantations - theft lands / Land owners = robbers. Great lecture!!
@mohammedhusam96094 жыл бұрын
Good job
@ritaarantes30004 жыл бұрын
Very good Professor.
@convinced_muslim3 ай бұрын
I haven't seen a white man before talking against colonialism before to this extent!
@AlexanderLasch4 жыл бұрын
Lieber Martin, hab vielen Dank.
@MartinHilpert4 жыл бұрын
Danke Dir, Alex! Deine Videos zur digitalen Lehre sind mir gerade eine wertvolle Hilfe bei der Planung des Wintersemesters.