Involuntary associations : postcolonial studies and world Englishes / David Huddart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huddart, David (David Paul), author.

Series:

Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 15.

Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Foreign countries--Discourse analysis.

English language.

Postcolonialism--Language.

Postcolonialism.

English language--Globalization--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 164 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The consequences of English's spread have become increasingly clear to its diverse speakers. Sometimes associated with a standardization leading to homogenization, often also with imperialism, English is increasingly understood to have no necessary connection with any country or group of countries. The willingness to accept that English has become Englishes might be less evident among so-called native speakers, but their authority is weaker than it seemed. The idea of World Englishes encourages us to re-imagine our understanding of the language. The difference between error and innovation can no longer be decided through assumptions about the language 'ownership'. In fact, the language is beginning to be a medium of the expression of identity for more and more people in very different contexts. This book puts examples from World Englishes into dialogue with postcolonial studies, in the belief that while postcolonial studies has obviously had much to say about English, it has either directly concerned or been influenced by English literary studies. The dialogue will correct misconceptions and misapprehensions in postcolonial studies, with World Englishes offering renewal for postcolonial studies. At the same time, the dialogue will also apply postcolonial studies' political and philosophical ideas to World Englishes, resulting in a postcolonial perspective on English today.

Contents:

Involuntary associations : "Postcolonial Studies" and "World Englishes"

Grammars of living break their Tense : world Englishes and cultural translation

English in the conversation of mankind : world Englishes and global citizenship

Declarations of linguistic independence: the postcolonial dictionary

Writing after the end of empire : Composition, community, and creativity

Slow reading : the opacity of world literatures

Conclusion : English remains, englishes remain.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-159) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9781781385982

178138598X

9781781381540

1781381542

OCLC:

900208466

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access