The Effects of Globalization on Languages: Case Study of Vietnamese

Hue Hoang Thi, Gatut Susanto

Abstract

Globalization and the trend of cyberspace and international economic integration that is taking place all over the world have greatly affected the society, culture and languages of Vietnam. This research aims to explore the effects of globalization from the aspect of creative work, using qualitative document analysis methods on languages used in contemporary Vietnamese poetry. Poetic language, words, sentences, symbols exhibit the influences of globalization and cyberspace. The research results show that the effects in language hybridization, creation of new languages, and use of English interlaced in the Vietnamese poetic language create new forms of expression. The research signals the need to preserve the purity of languages in general and poetry in particular, as well as the need for further research on the risk of losing languages’ national cultural identity in the process of globalization.

 

Keywords: cyberspace, globalization, effects, languages, hybridization, Vietnamese poetry.


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