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The Future of Languages
Professor Gunther Kress (Institute of Education, University of London)

To speak of the future implies change and hence a social view of language (-- on the assumption that human brains don't change fast enough for us or anyone to notice). I will start with a sketchy bit of history of (the English) language, namely that of the sentence. I will attempt to link that -- very loosely - to social changes, without any attempt at a serious history. I will then focus on some current conditions and trends -- social, political, cultural, representational, technological - and speculate about their likely effects on language. Given the modest claim implicit in the title, this can be no more than suggestive and perhaps just a little provocative: and if so, that may just be enough.

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