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The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies: Cross/Cultures / ASNEL Papers, cartea 65/7

Christian Mair
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2002
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 onlineOED.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.
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ISBN-13: 9789042008663
ISBN-10: 9042008660
Dimensiuni: 155 x 230 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Cross/Cultures / ASNEL Papers


Notă biografică

CHRISTIAN MAIRis a professor of English linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. While his major research interest is the corpus-based study of change and variation in present- day English, he has always made a point of placing his linguistic activities in a wider context. He is the author of two widely used introductory handbooks (Englisch für Anglisten, 1995;Das heutige Englisch, with Emst Leisi, 1999) and has championed a linguistically based approach to Caribbean cultural studies in numerous articles in journals and contributions to books.

Recenzii

”…an immensely enjoyable collection of essays…” in:Anglia, Band 123, Heft 1, 2005

Cuprins

C. MAIR: Linguistics, Literature and the Postcolonial Englishes: An IntroductionRESISTING (IN) ENGLISH: GLOBALIZATION AND ITS COUNTER-DISCOURSESA. PENNYCOOK: Beyond Homogeny and Heterogeny: English as a Global and Worldly LanguageR. PHILLIPSON: English for the Globe, or Only for Globe-Trotters? The world of the EUT. SKUTNABB-KANGAS: Linguistic Diversity and Biodiversity: The Threat from Killer LanguagesM. TOOLAN: English as the Supranational Language of Human Rights?P. MÜHLHÄUSLER: English as an Exotic LanguageR.J. ALEXANDER: G.lobal L.anguages O.ppress B.ut A.re L.iberating, Too: The Dialectics of EnglishP. LYSANDROU & Y. LYSANDROU: Proregression and Dynamic Stasis: The Ambivalent Impact of English as Reflected in Postcolonial WritingS. MÜHLEISEN: Towards Global Diglossia? English in the Sciences and the HumanitiesJ. PRICE: The Recording of Vocabulary from the Major Varieties of English in theOxford English DictionaryB. SEIDLHOFER & J. JENKINS: English as a Lingua Franca and the Politics of PropertyTHE CARIBBEAN AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN NORTH AMERICA AND BRITAINH. DEVONISH: Language Advocacy and 'Conquest' Diglossia in the ‘Anglophone’ CaribbeanH. SIMMONS-McDONALD: Decolonizing English: The Caribbean Counter-ThrustF. DARROCH: Re-Reading the Religious Bodies of Postcolonial LiteratureM. MEYER: An African’s Trouble with His Masters’ VoicesP. TOURNAY: Home, Hybridity and (post)colonial Discourse in Caryl Phillips’sA State of IndependenceENGLISH AND ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WRITING IN AFRICAN.M. KAMWANGAMALU: When 2+9=1: English and the Politics of Language Planning in a Multilingual Society: South AfricaKEMBO-SURE: The Democratization of Language Policy: A Cultural-Linguistic Analysis of the Status of English in KenyaS.T.A. MAFU: Postcolonial Language Planning in Tanzania: What Are the Difficulties and What is the Way Out?E. CHIAVETTA: ‘Hear from my own lips’: The Language of Women's AutobiographiesD. DEUBER & P. OLOKO: Linguistic and Literary Development of Nigerian Pidgin: The Contribution of Radio DramaH. FRANK: ‘That's all out of shape’: Language and Racism in South African DramaH. RAMSEY-KURZ: Beyond the Domain of Literacy: The Illiterate Other inThe Heart of the Matter, Things Fall ApartandWaiting for the BarbariansR. SAMIN: ‘The nuisance one learns to put up with’: English as a Linguistic Compromise in Es’kia Mphahlele’s FictionTHE POLITICS OF ENGLISH ON THE ASIAN SUBCONTINENTD.C.R.A. GOONETILLEKE: The Interface of Language, Literature and Politics in Sri Lanka: A Paradigm for Ex-Colonies of BritainP. PAUL: The Master’s Language and its Indian UsesR. WIJESINHA: Bringing Back the Bathwater: New Initiatives in English Policy in Sri LankaV. ALEXANDER: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Amit Chaudhuri’sAfternoon Raagand Yasmine Gooneratne’sA Change of SkiesY. TAN: Imperial Pretensions andThe Pleasures of ConquestC. VOGT-WILLIAM: ‘Language is the skin of my thought’: Language Relations inAncient PromisesandThe God of Small ThingsNEW ZEALAND, CANADA, THE PHILIPPINES: ENGLISH IN MULTILINGUAL CONSTELLATIONS AROUND THE PACIFIC RIMP.H. MARSDEN: From ‘carefully modulated murmur’ to ‘not a place forsooks‘: New Zealand Ways of Writing EnglishM. KEOWN: Maori or English? The Politics of Language in Patricia Grace'sBaby No-EyesJ. HOLMES, M. STUBBE & M. MARRA: Language, Humour and Ethnic Identity Marking in New Zealand EnglishE. HASEBE-LUDT: Métissage and Memory: The Politics of Literacy Education in Canadian Curriculum and ClassroomsK. KNOPF: ‘Joseph you know him he don trus dah Anglais’ Or: English as Postcolonial Language in Canadian Indigenous FilmsD. MANARPAAC: ‘When I was a child I spake as a child’: Reflecting on the Limits of a Nationalist Language PolicyCONTRIBUTORS