| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 497 pages) : illustrations |
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Cross/cultures ; 65 |
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ASNEL papers ; 7 |
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Cross/cultures ; 65.
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ASNEL papers ; 7.
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| Contents |
Linguistics, Literature And The Postcolonial Englishes : An Introduction / Christian Mair -- Resisting (In) English : Globalization And Its Counter-Discourses Beyond Homogeny And Heterogeny : English As A Global And Worldly Language / Alastair Pennycook -- English For The Globe, Or Only For Globe-Trotters? : The World Of The EU / Robert Phillipson -- Linguistic Diversity And Biodiversity : The Threat From Killer Languages / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas -- English As The Supranational Language Of Human Rights? / Michael Toolan -- English As An Exotic Language / Peter Muhlhausler -- G. Lobal L. Anguages O. Ppress B. Ut A. Re L. Iberating, Too : The Dialectics Of English / Richard J. Alexander -- Proregression And Dynamic Stasis : The Ambivalent Impact Of English As Reflected In Postcolonial Writing / Photis Lysandrou and Yvonne Lysandrou -- Towards Global Diglossia? : English In The Sciences And The Humanities / Susanne Muhleisen -- The Recording Of Vocabulary From The Major Varieties Of English In The Oxford English Dictionary / Jennie Price -- English As A Lingua Franca And The Politics Of Property / Barbara Seidlhofer and Jennifer Jenkins -- The Caribbean and The African Diaspora In North America And Britain Language Advocacy and "Conquest" Diglossia in the "Anglophone" Caribbean / Hubert Devonish -- Decolonizing English : The Caribbean Counter-Thrust / Hazel Simmons-Mcdonald -- Re-Reading the Religious Bodies of Postcolonial Literature / Fiona Darroch -- An African's Trouble With His Masters' Voices / Michael Meyer -- Home, Hybridity and (Post)colonial Discourse in Caryl Phillips's A State Of Independence / Petra Tournay -- English And English-Language Writing In Africa When 2+9=1 : English and the Politics of Language Planning in a Multilingual Society : South Africa / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu -- The Democratization of Language Policy : A Cultural-Linguistic Analysis of the Status of English in Kenya / Kembo-Sure -- Postcolonial Language Planning In Tanzania : What Are The Difficulties And What Is The Way Out? / Safari T.A. Mafu -- "Hear from my own lips": the Language of Women's Autobiographies / Eleonora Chiavetta -- Linguistic and Literary Development of Nigerian Pidgin : The Contribution of Radio Drama / Dagmar Deuber and Patrick Oloko -- "That's all out of shape" : Language and Racism in South African Drama / Haike Frank -- Beyond the Domain of Literacy : The Illiterate Other in The Heart of the Matter, Things Fall Apart and Waiting for the Barbarians / Helga RamseyKurz -- "The nuisance one learns to put up with" : English as a Linguistic Compromise in Es'kia Mphahlele's Fiction / Richard Samin -- The Politics Of English On The Asian Subcontinent -- The Interface of Language, Literature and Politics in Sri Lanka : A Paradigm for Ex-Colonies of Britain / D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke -- The Master's Language and its Indian Uses / Premila Paul -- Bringing Back the Bathwater : New Initiatives in English Policy in Sri Lanka / Rajiva Wijesinha -- Cross-Cultural Encounters in Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag and Yasmine Gooneratne's A Change of Skies / Vera Alexander -- Imperial Pretensions and The Pleasures of Conquest / Yvette Tan -- "Language is the skin of my thought" : Language Relations in Ancient Promises and The God of Small Things / Christine VogtWilliam -- New Zealand, Canada, The Philippines : English In Multilingual Constellations Around The Pacific Rim -- From "carefully modulated murmur" to "not a place for sooks" : New Zealand Ways of Writing English / Peter H. Marsden -- Maori or English? : The Politics of Language in Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes / Michelle Keown -- Language, Humour and Ethnic Identity Marking in New Zealand English / Janet Holmes, Maria Stubbe And Meredith Marra -- Metissage and Memory : The Politics of Literacy Education in Canadian Curriculum and Classrooms / Erika Hasebe-Ludt -- "Joseph you know him he don trus dah Anglais" Or : English as Postcolonial Language in Canadian Indigenous Films / Kerstin Knopf -- "When I was a child I spake as a child" : Reflecting on the Limits of a Nationalist Language Policy / Danilo Manarpaac |
| Summary |
The complex politics of English as a world language provides the backdrop both for linguistic studies of varieties of English around the world and for postcolonial literary criticism. The present volume offers contributions from linguists and literary scholars that explore this common ground in a spirit of open interdisciplinary dialogue. Leading authorities assess the state of the art to suggest directions for further research, with substantial case studies ranging over a wide variety of topics - from the legitimacy of language norms of lingua franca communication to the recognition of newer post-colonial varieties of English in the online OED. Four regional sections treat the Caribbean (including the diaspora), Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Australasia and the Pacific Rim. Each section maintains a careful balance between linguistics and literature, and external and indigenous perspectives on issues. The book is the most balanced, complete and up-to-date treatment of the topic to date |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English language.
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English language -- Social aspects.
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Language, Universal.
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Communication, International.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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English language.
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English language -- Social aspects.
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Language, Universal.
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Communication, International.
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Communication, International
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English language
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English language -- Social aspects
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Language, Universal
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Wereldtalen.
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Engels.
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Postkolonialisme.
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Taalpolitiek.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mair, Christian
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| ISBN |
1417566655 |
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9781417566655 |
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