World English

A Study of its Development

By (author) Janina Brutt-Griffler

Publication date:

14 March 2002

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781853595783

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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 language change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and change of English, putting forward a new framework of language spread and change.

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