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World English : a study of its development / Janina Brutt-Griffler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brutt-Griffler, Janina, 1966-
- Series:
- Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 34.
- Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 34
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Foreign countries.
- English language.
- English language--English-speaking countries.
- Communication, International.
- Intercultural communication.
- English-speaking countries.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Clevedon, UK ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : Multilingual Matters, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 Images of World English: Writing English as an International Language 1
- 2 The Representation of the Social in a Social Science: Methodology in Linguistics 17
- 3 Ideological and Economic Crosscurrents of Empire 34
- 4 The Contested Terrain of Colonial Language Policy 62
- 5 Access Denied: Containing the Spread of English 86
- 6 The Becoming of a World Language 107
- 7 Macroacquisition: Bilingual Speech Communities and Language Change 126
- 8 The Macroacquisition of English: New Representations in the Language 149
- 9 (The) World (of) English: Englishes in Convergence 174
- 10 Decentering English Applied Linguistics 182.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1853595780
- 1853595772
- OCLC:
- 48077483
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