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
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780415872270
Subjects: English language -- Foreign countries; Lingua francas; English language -- Variation; English language -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of figures; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: 1. Emergent lingua francas and world orders; title: 2. A model of evolving world orders and lingua francas; title: 3. Liminality; title: 4. The last liminal period: emergent Arabic in the Middle Ages; title: 5. Three phases of liminality; title: 6. Embracing liminality: a case study of Singapore; title: 7. A case study of the Peoples' Republic of China; title: 8. A case study of Southern Min language; title: 9. The place of English in the world today; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.