Against Uniform Thinking / Contre la pensée unique [French]

By Claude Hagège

Claude Hag ge is the author of such I'mensely successful works as "Le Fran ais et les Si cles, Le Souffle de la langue, Halte la mort des langues" and "Combat pour le fran ais". This titles have been translated in many languages. He is a professor at the Coll ge de France.Faced with the difficulty of communicating between speakers of different languages, human societies have often promoted vehicular languages such as Sanskrit or Latin. But the rapid spread of the English language in the contemporary world is a new phenomenon. And because English reflects the way of thinking of native English speakers, its widespread use puts pressure on the speakers of other languages to conform to these ways of thinking. Besides, argues the author, English is the language of the world's most powerful nations, those with the greatest capacity to spread their products and models worldwide. Language conveys mI'dsets that have the power to impose themselves extensively and thus threaten to become monolithic. This very real threat must be examined in the name of linguistic diversity and of the intellectual schema conveyed by each language.- An eminent linguist and popular media personality who has mastered more than 50 languages, Claude Hag ge is the sole figure with the authority to defend linguistic diversity and to make his voice heard.- The re-appropriation of the French language by its speakers is a crucial issue. The author offers an astounding demonstration of how English has taken over how speakers of other languages think.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2738125638
• ISBN13: 9782738125637
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Odile Jacob
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"