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Direct linkRajagopalan, Kanavillil – Applied Linguistics, 2010
The term "intelligibility" is widely viewed as denoting an ideologically neutral concept and therefore useful in speculating about the future of the English language, especially in the context of its expansion at the current exponential rate and the danger or otherwise of its breaking up into mutually incomprehensible languages, the way Latin did…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Variation, Mutual Intelligibility, Second Language Learning
