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World English : a study of its development /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brutt-Griffler, Janina, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Clevedon, UK ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : Multilingual Matters, ©2002.
Colección:Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 34.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Glossary
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 Images of World English: Writing English as an International Language
  • Chapter 2 The Representation of the Social in a Social Science: Methodology in Linguistics
  • Chapter 3 Ideological and Economic Crosscurrents of Empire
  • Chapter 4 The Contested Terrain of Colonial Language Policy
  • Chapter 5 Access Denied: Containing the Spread of English
  • Chapter 6 The Becoming of a World Language
  • Chapter 7 Macroacquisition: Bilingual Speech Communities and Language Change
  • Chapter 8 The Macroacquisition of English: New Representations in the LanguageChapter 9 (The) World (of) English: Englishes in Convergence
  • Chapter 10 Decentering English Applied Linguistics
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index