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Doing a seminar in my pre uni course on linguistics. please can you help? Plz answer!

I'm doing an Access course. In it, we do study skills and this terms topic is seminars.We must choose a topic which has two arguments to it ,but it can be anything we want, preferably something we're passionate about.
Though I haven't studied linguistics( yet), I'm very passionate about it . I started Russian two and half years ago and started Finnish the year after. I have also listened to a few lectures from La Trobe University and University of Arizona on linguistics ( a few others i cant remember )and a little from lingua Franca radio programme.I also have a specific interest in Sami languages. I would like to be a linguistic professor in the farr future ( im only 20 :/) but for now compared to someone who has a degree I don't know crap :tongue:

For my seminar I want to argue whether we should embrace linguistic diversity or have one global language.
However, I'm having a little bit of a hard time finding linguists who actually SUPPORT that we should have a global language since the issue of linguicide is close to the hearts of many..but i refuse to beleive that there are none who do. So I'm wondering if anyone here can tell suggest any to me so I can find things about them to help my Seminar.

if I'm not mistaken -and I might just be being stupid here..does David Crystal support English as a global language?...I think I saw that somewhere :/?)

thank you so much.

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