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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455265903321

Autore

Chew Phyllis Ghim Lian

Titolo

Emergent lingua francas and world orders : the politics and place of English as a world language / / Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2009

ISBN

0-415-84734-6

1-135-23557-0

1-282-31588-9

9786612315886

0-203-86656-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in sociolinguistics ; ; 1

Disciplina

420.9

Soggetti

English language - Foreign countries

Lingua francas

English language - Variation

English language - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Emergent Lingua Francas and World Orders; 2 A Model of Evolving World Orders and Lingua Francas; 3 Liminality; 4 The Last Liminal Period: Emergent Arabic in the Middle Ages; 5 Three Phases of Liminality; 6 Embracing Liminality: A Case Study of Singapore; 7 A Case Study of the People's Republic of China; 8 A Case Study of Southern Min Language; 9 The Place of English in the World Today; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes (WEs) in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca (ELF). Chew argues that history is a theatre for the realization of lingua francas, offering a model that shows the present



as derived from the past and as a bearer of future possibility, the understanding of which is rooted in the understanding of World Englishes and ELF. The book will engage with some of the cur