In his essay Who Owns Global English?

Dennis Baron uses his language in a critic and explanatory way in order to convey the importance of the English Language in a global context. Dennis Baron analyzes how English has been transformed and how its transforming with time and how people react to this.

The concept of Global English he refers to in his whole essay states the fact that time and other countries have influenced English to a point where native anglo-speakers tend to fail to recognize their own idiom in the English others use; to the point where its referred to as Spanglish(438), Engrish or Bad English (436).

To empower his points he uses words and sentences said by well-known and respected people in the media like Barack Obama Yes we can or even the Queen of England. In addition to these two characters of the actual international social life he mentions the Roman Empire to increase his credibility even more. This strategy combined with intelligent use of language demonstrated in the use of terms like new English or the distinction between American and British English to note that this feeling is not only shared with countries that employ English as their second language plays a big role in the ease of the understanding of the essay. (435) Despite English being so Global as defined by Baron, native speakers tend to overprotect it when they get the feeling of the language being threatened by other idioms as the author expresses in his essay. He uses verbs like threaten or protect to make it noticeable that this is a big issue for some and it deserved to be paid attention to. This obsession is also reflected in the fact that they wish to remove borrowed words from other language in order to keep English as pure as it can be.

Despite this attempt of protection, according to Dennis Baron, the English language has suffered the same process the Romans had with Latin, being turned into many different Romance Languages. To

express the feeling that Global English isnt just his ideas but a real fact he presents the examples of Slovakia where Andy Hillard was fined for using English on TV or how china is prohibiting USAs abbreviations . He once again uses real facts to empower the truthfulness of his paper along with an anecdote on how Chinese reject American influence but are so familiar with Japanese or Pali. This anecdotes put to rest the tension the author generates during the whole discussion. Finally on a side note and as an update, possibly to bring the reader to concern and realize i ts happening at the time he is reading it, he decides to emphasize on that bilingual phrase that the metro in Madrid was using: Yes we want estudiar el proximo curso This is done to show us, the reader the wide number or branches of variation that English has and also the importance it has adquired (to be written on an official document, for example).

Through the repetition of the word English throughout the essay with different adjectives and different connotations, the author maintains the main idea of the essay and keeps it in a remarkable and easy-to-notice first layer. This constantly grabs the readers attention to what the thesis is and how it relates to allthe different examples he gives out in addition to keeping the reader focused and entertained on the reading.

The use of language not only allows for this essay to be produced but also permits the essay to reflect the importance of the topic of discussion and develop the authors thesis from that point.

Language is the vehicle we use; we get to choose the road we want to follow.