English and the Discourses of Colonialism: The Politics of Language
Autor Alastair Pennycooken Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 sep 1998
This challenging and provocative book looks particularly at English, English language teaching, and colonialism. It reveals how the practice of colonialism permeated the cultures and discourses of both the colonial and colonized nations, the effects of which are still evident today. Pennycook explores the extent to which English is, as commonly assumed, a language of neutrality and global communication, and to what extent it is, by contrast, a language laden with meanings and still weighed down with colonial discourses that have come to adhere to it.
Travel writing, newspaper articles and popular books on English, are all referred to, as well as personal experiences and interviews with learners of English in India, Malaysia, China and Australia. Pennycook concludes by appealing to postcolonial writing, to create a politics of opposition and dislodge the discourses of colonialism from English.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415178488
ISBN-10: 0415178487
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria The Politics of Language
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415178487
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria The Politics of Language
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and UndergraduateRecenzii
'This is a complex book, containing areas that will appeal to a variety of readers.' - Language in Society
'...elegantly and provocatively written...It is a timely and thoughtful book written with historical sensitivity and above all, an appreciation of the need to place the question of post colonialism...Pennycook has produced an acute, entertaining and often surprising book.' - Rumina Sethi
'...elegantly and provocatively written...It is a timely and thoughtful book written with historical sensitivity and above all, an appreciation of the need to place the question of post colonialism...Pennycook has produced an acute, entertaining and often surprising book.' - Rumina Sethi
Cuprins
List of figures, Acknowledgements, 1. English and the cultural constructs of colonialism, 2. The cultural constructs of colonialism, 3. Anglicism, Orientalism and colonial language policy, 4. Hong Kong: Opium, riots, English and Chinese, 5. Images of the Self: our marvellous tongue, 6. Images of the Other: China and cultural fixity, 7. English, continuity and counterdiscourse, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Descriere
Is the English language neutral, global and open to everyone? By examining colonial language policies in India, Malaysia and Hong Kong, this book shows how various policies emerged which both reflected and produced colonial disourses.