Globalising The French Language: Neo-Colonialism OrudDevelopment?

摘要

This paper is concerned with the attempt to globalize the French language in contemporary world politics, inudview of competing value systems fi·om other key languages of the international society. It attempts toudcontextualize the philosophical trajectory of globalization which sees globalization as the homogenization ofudideas, images and institutions with a view to creating a 'global culture' of norms and values acceptable amongudcertain regional blocks. It draws its intellectual support from the French policy of assimilation which informedudtheir colonial method during the era of balkanization of Africa, Asia, and the rest of the Third World. It adopts audcritical conversational method which involves literature review, histo -empirical analysis, critical conceptualudclarification and analysis, within the purview of intellectual interrogation. Findings show that the policy ofudassimilation adopted by the French as a fundamental colonial policy created a tension between fragmentation andudintegration, which still resonates in contemporary literature on neo-colonialism, albeit its developmentaludparadigm. The paper recommends the dissolution of this tens