Emergent lingua francas and world orders
Subtitle: the politics and place of English as a world language
By: by Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew
Series: Routledge studies in sociolinguistics -- 1; Routledge studies in sociolinguistics -- 1.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780415872270; 9780203866566
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emergent lingua francas and world orders; title: A model of evolving world orders and lingua francas; title: Liminality; title: The last liminal period: emergent Arabic in the Middle Ages; title: Three phases of liminality; title: Embracing liminality: a case study of Singapore; title: A case study of the Peoples' Republic of China; title: A case study of Southern Min language; title: The place of English in the world today.