Thesis Statement

Thesis Statement:

“As the world becomes more connected, language diversity is plummeting,” Jordan Pearson (Vice) effectively uses ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos to elaborate on the various challenges indigenous and minority languages are facing and the negative effects of globalization. Pearson’s writing furthers the notion that every nation has been subject to colonization due to exponential globalization. Another source, ‘The Colony’ by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle, also furthers Pearson’s argument by expounding on the role of colonialism and expansionism in the decline of minority languages.

1. Introduction Draft

Globalization and colonialism are some of the influencing factors to the current structure of the world and world politics. Globalization refers to the ever-growing interdependence of world economies, populations, and cultures that have been created out of the cross-border trade of goods and services, investments, information, and technology (Burlacu, Gutu & Matei, 2018). The flow of investments, information, and technology is mostly from Western countries to the rest of the world because they are more advanced in finance, knowledge, and technology. Colonization, on the other hand, refers to the process of discovery, conquest, and settlement of large populations of foreign people among indigenous people while establishing control over the latter with a view of exploiting them and their resources (Ali, Fjeldstad, & Shifa, 2020). Though the practice of colonization is long gone, critics often argue that it persists as neo-colonialism. In neo-colonialism, colonial control of other territories exists through an invisible hand where local politics and economics are controlled by foreign powers. “As the world becomes more connected, language diversity is plummeting,” Jordan Pearson (Vice) effectively uses ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos to elaborate on the various challenges indigenous and minority languages are facing and the negative effects of globalization. Pearson’s writing furthers the notion that every nation has been subject to colonization due to exponential globalization. Another source, ‘The Colony’ by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle, also furthers Pearson’s argument by expounding on the role of colonialism and expansionism in the decline of minority languages.

1. Analysis of the article through Post-colonial criticism
2. Definition of post-colonial criticism.
3. Post-colonial criticism focuses on the domination of one country and its culture over another and its impact on the dominated country.
4. The article provides a lot of information based on different points of view on colonialism and globalization. As such, post-colonial criticism support some of the arguments like Chinua Achebe’s.
5. Post-colonial Criticism
6. The post-colonial lens supports the arguments made by the article.
7. The post-colonial lens shows that the colonizer imposed the dominance of the native languages of the people they colonized by their language.
8. The post-colonial lens helps readers understand the negative consequences of globalization for the world of the article by revealing the impact of colonization based on the point of view of the colonized.
9. Analysis of the article’s use of pathos
10. The article was effective in its use of pathos.
11. The article appeals to the emotions of the readers by revealing the high number of languages that are now endangered because of globalization.
12. Further, “The Colony” reveals the negative effects of colonization on minority languages.
13. This affects my thesis positively since it will show the negative side of colonialism and globalization.
14. Analysis of the article’s use of ethos
15. The article is effective in its use of ethos.
16. By supporting the ideas on the negative effect of globalization on language through statistics.
17. This has a positive impact on my thesis by making my arguments more reliable.
18. Analysis of the articles use of Logos to support the thesis
19. The article is very effective in the use of logos.
20. Pearson explains the role of economies in globalization’s effect on local languages.
21. This has a positive impact on my thesis by making arguments against globalization more credible.
22. Analysis of the article’s use of Kairos
23. The article is very effective in the use of Kairos.
24. Through research, the article shows the main factor contributing to globalization’s effect on language is the growth of GDP (Pearson, 2020).
25. This affects my thesis positively by revealing how globalization manages to affect minority languages through monetary power.
26. Resolution
27. It is important to save indigenous and native languages.
28. When cultures assimilate to American-British English, the culture and identity of the people is lost (Heise, 2017).
29. People who assimilate to American-British English may not be able to keep their own cultures (Grajzl, Eastwood & Dimitrova-Grajzl, 2018).