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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clevedon, UK ; Buffalo [N.Y.] :
Multilingual Matters,
©2002.
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Colección: | Bilingual education and bilingualism ;
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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