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SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Relation au monde ». Partie 1 (16 pts) (a) Prenez connaissance du dossier proposé, composé des documents A, B et C non hiérarchisés, et traitez en anglais le sujet suivant (300 mots maximum ; 10 points) : Say what the documents
SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Relation au monde ». Partie 1 (16 pts) (a) Prenez connaissance du dossier proposé, composé des documents A, B et C non hiérarchisés, et traitez en anglais le sujet suivant (300 mots maximum ; 10 points) : Say what the documents reveal about the influences that have shaped English both as a shared language on the global stage and as a language of self-expression for individuals, groups and nations. (b) Vous rédigerez, au choix, l’un des deux écrits complémentaires demandés ci-dessous : ‘The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use’ (document B, l. 45-46). Expliquez en anglais et en 200 mots maximum en quoi les documents A et C illustrent ce propos de Chinua Achebe cité ici. (6 points) ou ‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.’ (document C) A la lumière des documents A et B, expliquez, en anglais et en 200 mots maximum, quelles similitudes et quels contrastes il est possible de percevoir entre la situation que décrivait sur un mode humoristique Oscar Wilde en 1887 et la relation du Nigéria contemporain à la langue anglaise. (6 points) Partie 2 (4 pts) Traduisez en français le passage suivant du document B : “It is possible that in an attempt to be inclusive, they have made wrong calls,” he said. He told the BBC that he had no problem with the nouns, such as “okada” and “danfo”, but he had issues with the addition of some of the verbs and adverbs. “They added ‘sef’. ‘Sef’ is like a verbal exclamation to add emphasis but you go to the dictionary entry, ‘sef’ has no etymological roots,” he said. “It doesn't mean anything. It is completely useless. It is not even a corruption from another language. What is 'sef'? (l. 27-34) Page 2 sur 9 DOCUMENT A What is English? And Why Should We Care? Tim William Machan Abstract What is English? Why do we care? And for that matter how do we know? To answer 5 these questions this book draws on original archival research as well as historical and grammatical analysis. It addresses English’s past, present, and possible futures, and also the reasons why English-speakers have cared so deeply about their language. With some 1.5 billion people around the world speaking English