TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brutt-Griffler,Janina
TI  - World English: A Study of Its Development
T2  - Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Series
SN  - 9781853595790
AV  - PE2751.B78 2002 
U1  - 420 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Clevedon
PB  - Multilingual Matters
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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