ABSTRACT
One of the most important tasks that scholars ought to perform is to discover questions out of the taken-for-granted knowledge of existing reality. The question I want to raise in this essay concerns the use of English, which is very much taken for granted in international communication today. Speaking from a non-English-speaking perspective, I believe the use of English should not be taken for granted but should be examined as a problem of linguistic hegemony. It is evident that English is the de facto language of international communication today. It is also evident, however, that the dominance of English causes not only linguistic and communicative inequality but also feelings of anxiety and insecurity, especially on the part of non-Englishspeaking people in a rapidly globalizing world. Thus, there is a need to propose a paradigm to counterattack the hegemony of English so that linguistic and cultural pluralism will be secured.
