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World English : A Study of Its Development.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism SeriesPublisher: Clevedon : Multilingual Matters, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781853595790
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: World EnglishDDC classification:
  • 420
LOC classification:
  • PE2751.B78 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Glossary -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Images of World English: Writing English as an International Language -- Chapter 2 The Representation of the Social in a Social Science: Methodology in Linguistics -- Chapter 3 Ideological and Economic Crosscurrents of Empire -- Chapter 4 The Contested Terrain of Colonial Language Policy -- Chapter 5 Access Denied: Containing the Spread of English -- Chapter 6 The Becoming of a World Language -- Chapter 7 Macroacquisition: Bilingual Speech Communities and Language Change -- Chapter 8 The Macroacquisition of English: New Representations in the Language -- Chapter 9 (The) World (of) English: Englishes in Convergence -- Chapter 10 Decentering English Applied Linguistics -- Appendices -- References -- Index.
Summary: This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, combining that with a study of its language change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and change of English, putting forward a new framework of language spread and change.
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Intro -- Contents -- Glossary -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Images of World English: Writing English as an International Language -- Chapter 2 The Representation of the Social in a Social Science: Methodology in Linguistics -- Chapter 3 Ideological and Economic Crosscurrents of Empire -- Chapter 4 The Contested Terrain of Colonial Language Policy -- Chapter 5 Access Denied: Containing the Spread of English -- Chapter 6 The Becoming of a World Language -- Chapter 7 Macroacquisition: Bilingual Speech Communities and Language Change -- Chapter 8 The Macroacquisition of English: New Representations in the Language -- Chapter 9 (The) World (of) English: Englishes in Convergence -- Chapter 10 Decentering English Applied Linguistics -- Appendices -- References -- Index.

This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, combining that with a study of its language change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and change of English, putting forward a new framework of language spread and change.

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