Unequal Englishes [electronic resource] : The Politics of Englishes Today /
Tupas, R.editor.
This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike many studies on the pluralization of English, the volume assumes that inequalities and Englishes are inextricably linked and must be understood and theorized together.
Introduction: From World Englishes to Unequal Englishes -- PART I: APPROACHES TO UNEQUAL ENGLISHES -- 1. Inequalities of Englishes, English Speakers, and Languages: A Critical Perspective of Pluralist Approaches to English -- 2. Unequal Englishes, the Native Speaker, and Decolonization in TESOL -- 3. Structures of Feeling in Unequal Englishes -- 4. Global English and Inequality: The Contested Ground of Linguistic Power -- PART II: ENGLISHES IN NEXUSES OF POWER AND INEQUALITY -- 5. 'Just an Old Joke': Chinglish, Narrative and Linguistic Inequality in the Chinese English Classroom -- 6. English in Japan: Indecisions, Inequalities and Practices of Relocalization -- 7. Performing Gayness and English in an Offshore Call Center Industry -- PART III: ENGLISHES IN CHANGING MULTILINGUAL SPACES -- 8. Earning Capital in Hawai'i's Linguistic Landscape -- 9. Glocalization and the Spread of Unequal Englishes: Vernacular Signs in the Centre of Beijing -- 10. Singlish Strikes Back in Singapore -- PART IV: ENGLISHES IN UNEQUAL LEARNING SPACES -- 11. Contesting the Raj's 'Divide and Rule' Policies: Linguistic Apartheid, Unequal Englishes, and the Postcolonial Framework -- 12. Unequal Englishes in Imagined Intercultural Interactions - 13. Preparing Teachers for 'Unequal Englishes': The D-TEIL Experience in Cuba.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike many studies on the pluralization of English, the volume assumes that inequalities and Englishes are inextricably linked and must be understood and theorized together.
Sociolinguistics.
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Language and languages—Study and teaching.
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Language Change.
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