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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791368903321

Titolo

Contending with globalization in world Englishes [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mukul Saxena and Tope Omoniyi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Multilingual Matters, 2010

ISBN

1-84769-397-0

1-282-65716-X

9786612657160

1-84769-276-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Critical language and literacy studies

Altri autori (Persone)

SaxenaMukul <1956->

OmoniyiTope

Disciplina

427

Soggetti

English language - Globalization

English language - Variation - English-speaking countries

English language - Variation - Foreign countries

Intercultural communication

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Globalization and International Intelligibility -- Chapter 3. From Chaos to Order: Language Change, Lingua Francas and World Englishes -- Chapter 4. English as a Lingua Franca in the Global Context: Interconnectedness, Variation and Change -- Chapter 5. World Englishes, Globalization and the Politics of Conformity -- Chapter 6. EFL: From ‘You Sound Like Dickens’ to International English -- Chapter 7. Glocalization of English in World Englishes: An Emerging Variety among Persian Speakers of English -- Chapter 8. Local Networks in the Formation and Development of West African English -- Chapter 9. The English Language, Globalization and Latin America: Possible Lessons from the ‘Outer Circle’ -- Chapter 10. Rethinking Origins and Localization in Global Englishes -- Chapter 11. Final Reflections: Globalization and World Englishes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book engages with English in globalization, re-examining and re-



interpreting the contemporary contexts of its acquisition and use. The chapters contained in this book weave together four inter-related themes that define the role of English in the global context: the ‘centrality of structure’, ‘relationships of interdependence’, ‘social constructions of difference’ and ‘reproduction of inequality’. These themes enable the authors to draw attention to the dynamics of the contemporary realities of the ‘English-speaking’ and ‘English-using’ nations, especially as they compete for cultural, social, economic and symbolic capital in global networks. In engaging World Englishes with the sociolinguistics of globalization, the authors raise some fundamental questions about the status, structure, and functions of World Englishes.