English in (or around) the Decolonized World

After achieving independence—which occurred at a rapid pace after the Second World War—the former colonies of questioned the continued use of the English language. Despite of many positive qualities in the continued use of English, all is not rosy with its global dominance in the world today. One of the criticisms leveled against global English is that it is guilty of cultural imperialism, as it tends to sideline other languages. At the same time however, cultural imperialism may not be entirely American, nor, is it wholly linguistic. Another manifestation of cultural imperialism occurs when literature in English causes a decline in the other literatures or edges them out by diverting attention away from them especially in relation to the sidelining of oral literature in native languages.在第二次世界大战后以迅猛速度实现独立的前殖民地，纷纷对英语的持续使用提出质疑。尽管持续使用英语具备诸多积极特质，但如今其全球主导地位并非尽善尽美。针对全球英语的批评之一，是其被指存在文化帝国主义倾向——它往往会边缘化其他语言。然而与此同时，文化帝国主义或许并不全然源自美国，也并非纯粹的语言层面问题。文化帝国主义的另一表现形式，在于英语文学可能会导致其他文学式微，或是通过转移人们对这些文学的注意力来排挤它们，尤其在本土语言口头文学被边缘化的相关语境中。