The politics of English as a world language
Subtitle: new horizons in postcolonial cultural studies
By: edited by Christian Mair
Series: Cross/cultures -- 65; ASNEL papers -- 7; Cross/cultures -- 65.; ASNEL papers -- 7.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9781417566655
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Linguistics; International Communication; Social aspects; Postkolonialisme; English language; General; Engels; Taalpolitiek; Wereldtalen; Universal Language
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Linguistics, Literature And The Postcolonial Englishes : An Introduction / Christian Mair; title: Resisting (In) English : Globalization And Its Counter-Discourses Beyond Homogeny And Heterogeny : English As A Global And Worldly Language / Alastair Pennycook; title: English For The Globe, Or Only For Globe-Trotters? : The World Of The EU / Robert Phillipson; title: Linguistic Diversity And Biodiversity : The Threat From Killer Languages / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas; title: English As The Supranational Language Of Human Rights? / Michael Toolan; title: English As An Exotic Language / Peter Muhlhausler; title: G. Lobal L. Anguages O. Ppress B. Ut A. Re L. Iberating, Too : The Dialectics Of English / Richard J. Alexander; title: Proregression And Dynamic Stasis : The Ambivalent Impact Of English As Reflected In Postcolonial Writing / Photis Lysandrou and Yvonne Lysandrou; title: Towards Global Diglossia? : English In The Sciences And The Humanities / Susanne Muhleisen; title: The Recording Of Vocabulary From The Major Varieties Of English In The Oxford English Dictionary / Jennie Price; title: English As A Lingua Franca And The Politics Of Property / Barbara Seidlhofer and Jennifer Jenkins; title: The Caribbean and The African Diaspora In North America And Britain Language Advocacy and "Conquest" Diglossia in the "Anglophone" Caribbean / Hubert Devonish; title: Decolonizing English : The Caribbean Counter-Thrust / Hazel Simmons-Mcdonald; title: Re-Reading the Religious Bodies of Postcolonial Literature / Fiona Darroch; title: An African's Trouble With His Masters' Voices / Michael Meyer; title: Home, Hybridity and (Post)colonial Discourse in Caryl Phillips's A State Of Independence / Petra Tournay; title: English And English-Language Writing In Africa When 2+9=1 : English and the Politics of Language Planning in a Multilingual Society : South Africa / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu; title: The Democratization of Language Policy : A Cultural-Linguistic Analysis of the Status of English in Kenya / Kembo-Sure; title: Postcolonial Language Planning In Tanzania : What Are The Difficulties And What Is The Way Out? / Safari T.A. Mafu; title: "Hear from my own lips": the Language of Women's Autobiographies / Eleonora Chiavetta; title: Linguistic and Literary Development of Nigerian Pidgin : The Contribution of Radio Drama / Dagmar Deuber and Patrick Oloko; title: "That's all out of shape" : Language and Racism in South African Drama / Haike Frank; title: Beyond the Domain of Literacy : The Illiterate Other in The Heart of the Matter, Things Fall Apart and Waiting for the Barbarians / Helga RamseyKurz; title: "The nuisance one learns to put up with" : English as a Linguistic Compromise in Es'kia Mphahlele's Fiction / Richard Samin; title: The Politics Of English On The Asian Subcontinent; title: The Interface of Language, Literature and Politics in Sri Lanka : A Paradigm for Ex-Colonies of Britain / D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke; title: The Master's Language and its Indian Uses / Premila Paul; title: Bringing Back the Bathwater : New Initiatives in English Policy in Sri Lanka / Rajiva Wijesinha; title: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag and Yasmine Gooneratne's A Change of Skies / Vera Alexander; title: Imperial Pretensions and The Pleasures of Conquest / Yvette Tan; title: "Language is the skin of my thought" : Language Relations in Ancient Promises and The God of Small Things / Christine VogtWilliam; title: New Zealand, Canada, The Philippines : English In Multilingual Constellations Around The Pacific Rim; title: From "carefully modulated murmur" to "not a place for sooks" : New Zealand Ways of Writing English / Peter H. Marsden; title: Maori or English? : The Politics of Language in Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes / Michelle Keown; title: Language, Humour and Ethnic Identity Marking in New Zealand English / Janet Holmes, Maria Stubbe And Meredith Marra; title: Metissage and Memory : The Politics of Literacy Education in Canadian Curriculum and Classrooms / Erika Hasebe-Ludt; title: "Joseph you know him he don trus dah Anglais" Or : English as Postcolonial Language in Canadian Indigenous Films / Kerstin Knopf; title: "When I was a child I spake as a child" : Reflecting on the Limits of a Nationalist Language Policy / Danilo Manarpaac.