World English : : A Study of its Development

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

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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...

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Brutt-Griffler, Janina,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
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Table of 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

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