Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
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.
What roles are English and World Englishes playing in globalization? What effect is globalization having on English and World Englishes? What effect is globalization having on other languages? Anyone interested in exploring these crucial questions will find this book a most helpful and stimulating companion. The editors have assembled an appropriately diverse all-star cast of contributors, each of whom approaches the topic from a refreshingly innovative standpoint. To paraphrase Omoniyi’s poem which opens the book, readers will learn to 'waltz, salsa and lion-dance' (and hip-hop) their way through the complex cultural and linguistic steps of globalisation.
Mukul Saxena is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics, Warwick University, UK. Before this, he worked in Brunei Darussalam, Lancaster and York. His publications and research interests are in the areas of (English-)bilingual classroom interaction, Multilingual literacies, Language maintenance & shift, World Englishes.
Tope Omoniyi is Professor of Sociolinguistics in the School of Arts at Roehampton University, London (UK). His research interests straddle issues in language and identity, language in education, and language policy and planning in Europe and Africa. His scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in numerous journals. He is the author of The Sociolinguistics of Borderlands: Two Nations, One People (AWP 2004) and editor and co-editor of several volumes of essays.
Chapter 1: Introduction - Tope Omoniyi and Mukul Saxena
Chapter 2: Globalization and International Intelligibility - Paroo Nihalani
Chapter 3: From Chaos to Order: Language Change, Lingua Francas & World Englishes - Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew
Chapter 4: English as a Lingua Franca in the Global Context: Interconnectedness, Variation and Change - Martin Dewey & Jennifer Jenkins
Chapter 5: World Englishes, Globalization, and the Politics of Conformity - Rakesh M. Bhatt
Chapter 6: EFL: from You Sound Like Dickens to International English - Maria Georgieva
Chapter 7: Glocalization of English in World Englishes: An Emerging Variety among Persian Speakers of English - Farzad Sharifian
Chapter 8: Local Networks in the Formation and Development of West African English - Augustin Simo Bobda
Chapter 9: The English Language, Globalization and Latin America: Possible Lessons from the 'Outer Circle' - Kanavillil Rajagopalan
Chapter 10: Rethinking Origins and Localization in Global Englishes - Alastair Pennycook
Chapter 11: Final Reflections: Globalization and World Englishes - Mukul Saxena and Tope Omoniyi