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World Englishes A Critical Analysis

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

26.02.2015

Verlag

Bloomsbury Academic

Seitenzahl

224

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16.1/1.7 cm

Gewicht

505 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-62356-380-6

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

26.02.2015

Verlag

Bloomsbury Academic

Seitenzahl

224

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16.1/1.7 cm

Gewicht

505 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-62356-380-6

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: World Englishes

  • Preface

    1. Introduction
    1.1 What this book is (and isn't) about
    1.2 Why another "World Englishes" book?
    1.2.1 Expanding the scope of World Englishes
    1.2.2 A slight impasse
    1.2.3 New challenges
    1.2.4 Old challenges
    1.3 Understanding language
    1.3.1 language as system
    1.3.2 Language as social practice

    Part I: History

    2. Old Englishes
    2.1 Introduction
    2.2 Mainstream narrative
    2.2.1 Metaphorical representations of language
    2.2.2 The arrival of English in 449 AD
    2.2.3 From closely related to one language
    2.2.4 The story of 'Old English' .
    2.3 Ideological motivations in the history of English
    2.3.1 language and nationhood
    2.4 Untidying History
    2.4.1 The 'birth' of the English language?
    2.4.2 The 'Anglo-Saxons'?
    2.4.3 Anglo-Saxon England?
    2.4.4 A purely Germanic language?
    2.5 Varieties of 'Old English'?
    2.6 Conclusion

    3. New Englishes
    3.1 Introduction .
    3.2 The story of the 'spread' of English
    3.2.1 English everywhere
    3.2.2 Two types of colonization
    3.2.3 The 'Three Circles of English'
    3.2.4 Criticism of the Three Circles model
    3.2.5 Schneider's Dynamic Model
    3.2.6 Melchers and Shaw's classification
    3.3 Beyond the 'spread' metaphor
    3.4 The 'prehistory' of World Englishes
    3.4.1 American English sets the scene
    3.4.2 Seeds of World Englishes in postcolonial writing
    3.5 Conclusion: language and politics

    Part II: Languages

    4. Understanding World Englishes
    4.1 Introduction
    4.2 The egalitarian matrix of World Englishes
    4.3 Limitations in the paradigm
    4.3.1 Equality in diversity?
    4.3.2 How different are Englishes allowed to be?
    4.3.3 What about the Expanding Circle?
    4.4 The 'spot the difference' approach
    4.4.1 'Errors' or 'features'?
    4.4.2 British and American English as yardsticks
    4.4.3 'In full communion with its ancestral home'
    4.4.4 The norms of English .
    4.4.5 The power of codification
    4.4.6 Varieties of language and varieties of race
    4.4.7 The linguist gaze and dominant discourses
    4.5 Spotting differences in English as a lingua franca
    4.5.1 ELF vs. ENL
    4.6 Conclusion

    5 Untidying Englishes
    5.1 Introduction
    5.2 Cutting the umbilical cord with the ancestral home
    5.3 Dealing with English and other languages
    5.3.1 Borrowing words?
    5.3.2 Language across borders
    5.3.3 English and non-English
    5.3.4 Switching languages?
    5.4 Delving deeper into language hybridity
    5.4.1 World Englishes and super-diversity
    5.4.2 Geography or language?
    5.4.3 ELF across borders
    5.5 Conclusion: from World Englishes to Language Worlds

    Part III: Ideology

    6. Linguistic imperialism and resistance
    6.1 Introduction
    6.2 An unequal world
    6.2.1 Where do the numbers come from?
    6.3 Language and empire
    6.3.1 American imperialism
    6.4 Linguistic imperialism
    6.4.1 Macaulay's 'minute'
    6.5 Responses to linguistic imperialism
    6.5.1 The 'agency' response
    6.5.2 The 'linguistic determinism' response
    6.5.3 The 'appropriation' response
    6.6 Conclusion

    Part IV: Pedagogy

    7. Teaching World Englishes
    7.1 Introduction
    7.2 Which English?
    7.3 (Non-)native speakers?
    7.3.1 Separate categories?
    7.3.2 Myths and discrimination
    7.4 The paradigm struggles to shift
    7.4.1 Acronyms and the (super-)diversity of language education
    7.5 Conclusion: teaching world Englishes?

    References

    Index