• Md. Ataul Karim

The development of English as an Industry is connected to the rise of English as a global Language. The impressive global reach of English is only a four hundred years old phenomenon, and deeply entangled with British imperialist history. This paper intends to show the various strategies through which corporations as well as governments utilize English to make money/ generate profits, and simultaneously promote certain ideologies and practices. To attain this end this paper particularly focuses on the issues around the marketing/industrialization of English. This is important to understand the various subtle politics through which linguistic hegemony pervades our globe, especially in this part of the world which can tentatively termed as the global South. This part itself constitutes the third largest market of English in the world, just after England and America. This paper particularly analyses the several myths upon which English Industry is grounded and spread which includes the myth of development, myth of standard English and myth of native speaker. The owner/managers of different profit making organizations circulate these myths to gain profit. This paper also engages itself with the issue of proselytizing to understand the politics of linguistic hegemony well. Hence, this paper finally shows that the global south to a great extent is lost/ entangled into the orbit of English industry whose purpose is mostly monetary/ multiplication of capital as well as ideological. The paper also suggests the possible negotiations with such situation and how to positively transform it.

Capitalism, Linguistic Hegemony, Ideology, Negotiations

"Lost into the Orbit of English Industry: A Postcolonial Exploration of the Politics of Linguistic Hegemony", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no.109-113, February-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002016.pdf

"Lost into the Orbit of English Industry: A Postcolonial Exploration of the Politics of Linguistic Hegemony", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no. pp109-113, February-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002016.pdf