The politics of English as a world language : new horizons in postcolonial cultural studies / edited by Christian Mair.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mair, Christian.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 65.

ASNEL papers ; 7.

Cross-Cultures ; 65

ASNEL papers ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language.

English language--Social aspects.

Language, Universal.

Communication, International.

Physical Description:

xxi, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2003.

Contents:

Linguistics, Literature and the Postcolonial Englishes: An Introduction / Christian Mair ix

Resisting (in) English: Globalization and Its Counter-Discourses

Beyond Homogeny and Heterogeny: English as a Global and Worldly Language / Alastair Pennycook 3

English for the Globe, or Only for Globe-Trotters? The world of the EU / Robert Phillipson 19

Linguistic Diversity and Biodiversity: The Threat from Killer Languages / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 31

English as the Supranational Language of Human Rights? / Michael Toolan 53

English as an Exotic Language / Peter Muhlhausler 67

G.lobal L.anguages O.ppress B.ut A.re L.iberating, Too: The Dialectics of English / Richard J. Alexander 87

Proregression and Dynamic Stasis: The Ambivalent Impact of English as Reflected in Postcolonial Writing / Photis Lysandrou, Yvonne Lysandrou 97

Towards Global Diglossia? English in the Sciences and the Humanities / Susanne Muhleisen 107

The Recording of Vocabulary from the Major Varieties of English in the Oxford English Dictionary / Jennie Price 119

English as a Lingua Franca and the Politics of Property / Barbara Seidlhofer, Jennifer Jenkins 139

The Caribbean and the African Diaspora in North America and Britain

Language Advocacy and 'Conquest' Diglossia in the 'Anglophone' Caribbean / Hubert Devonish 157

Decolonizing English: The Caribbean Counter-Thrust / Hazel Simmons-McDonald 179

Re-Reading the Religious Bodies of Postcolonial Literature / Fiona Darroch 203

An African's Trouble with His Masters' Voices / Michael Meyer 209

Home, Hybridity and (Post)colonial Discourse in Caryl Phillips's A State of Independence / Petra Tournay 219

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 235

The Democratization of Language Policy: A Cultural-Linguistic Analysis of the Status of English in Kenya / Kembo-Sure 247

Postcolonial Language Planning in Tanzania: What Are the Difficulties and What is the Way Out? / Safari T.A. Mafu 267

"Hear from my own lips": The Language of Women's Autobiographies / Eleonora Chiavetta 279

Linguistic and Literary Development of Nigerian Pidgin: The Contribution of Radio Drama / Dagmar Deuber, Patrick Oloko 289

"That's all out of shape": Language and Racism in South African Drama / Haike Frank 305

Beyond the Domain of Literacy: The Illiterate Other in The Heart of the Matter, Things Fall Apart and Waiting for the Barbarians / Helga Ramsey-Kurz 315

"The nuisance one learns to put up with": English as a Linguistic Compromise in Es'kia Mphahlele's Fiction / Richard Samin 325

The Politics of English on the Asian Subcontinent

The Interface of Language, Literature and Politics in Sri Lanka: A Paradigm for Ex-Colonies of Britain / D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke 337

The Master's Language and its Indian Uses / Premila Paul 359

Bringing Back the Bathwater: New Initiatives in English Policy in Sri Lanka / Rajiva Wijesinha 367

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag and Yasmine gooneratne's A Change of Skies / Vera Alexander 375

Imperial Pretensions and The Pleasures of Conquest / Yvette Tan 385

"Language is the skin of my thought": Language Relations in Ancient Promises and The God of Small Things / Christine Vogt-William 393

New Zealand, Canada, the Philippines: English in Multilingual Constellations Around the Pacific Rim

From "carefully modulated murmur" to "not a place for sooks": New Zealand Ways of Writing English / Peter H. Marsden 407

Maori or English? The Politics of Language in Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes / Michelle Keown 419

Language, Humour and Ethnic Identity Marking in New Zealand English / Janet Holmes, Maria Stubbe, Meredith Marra 431

Metissage and Memory: The Politics of Literacy Education in Canadian Curriculum and Classrooms / Erika Hasebe-Ludt 457

"Joseph you know him he don trus dah Anglais" Or: English as Postcolonial Language in Canadian Indigenous Films / Kerstin Knopf 467

"When I was a child I spake as a child": Reflecting on the Limits of a Nationalist Language Policy / Danilo Manarpaac 479.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9042008768

9042008660

OCLC:

52746795