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World English : A Study of its Development / Janina Brutt-Griffler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bilingual Education & BilingualismPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781853595783
  • 9781853595790
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Glossary -- Preface -- 1. Images of World English: Writing English as an International Language -- 2. The Representation of the Social in a Social Science: Methodology in Linguistics -- 3. Ideological and Economic Crosscurrents of Empire -- 4. The Contested Terrain of Colonial Language Policy -- 5. Access Denied: Containing the Spread of English -- 6. The Becoming of a World Language -- 7. Macroacquisition: Bilingual Speech Communities and Language Change -- 8. The Macroacquisition of English: New Representations in the Language -- 9. The) World (of) English: Englishes in Convergence -- 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 langauge 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Glossary -- Preface -- 1. Images of World English: Writing English as an International Language -- 2. The Representation of the Social in a Social Science: Methodology in Linguistics -- 3. Ideological and Economic Crosscurrents of Empire -- 4. The Contested Terrain of Colonial Language Policy -- 5. Access Denied: Containing the Spread of English -- 6. The Becoming of a World Language -- 7. Macroacquisition: Bilingual Speech Communities and Language Change -- 8. The Macroacquisition of English: New Representations in the Language -- 9. The) World (of) English: Englishes in Convergence -- 10. Decentering English Applied Linguistics -- Appendices -- References -- Index

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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. 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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