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World English : a study of its development / Janina Brutt-Griffler.

By:

Brutt-Griffler, Janina, 1966-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 34.Publisher: Clevedon, UK ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : Multilingual Matters, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xiii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1853595780
9781853595783
1853595772
9781853595776

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: World English.; No titleDDC classification:

420
420 21

LOC classification:

PE2751 .B78 2002

Contents:

Images of world English: writing English as an international language. -- The representation of the social in a social science: methodology in linguistics. -- Ideological and economic crosscurrents of Empire. -- The contested terrain of colonial language policy. -- Access denied: containing the spread of English. -- The becoming of a world language. -- Macroacquisition: bilingual speech communities and language change. -- The macroacquisition of English: new representations in the language. -- (The) world (of) English: Englishes in convergence. -- Decentering English applied linguistics.

Action note:

Self-Renewing 2018

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 langauge change.

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Includes bibliographical references and 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 langauge change.