World English A Study of Its Development - Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Series

This book integrates a historical and linguistic exploration of world English, documenting the emergence of the language as a contested site of linguistic encounters. It revises the understanding of English spread during the colonial period, emphasizing the agency of non-mother-tongue English speakers.

 

 

 

The book contends that English owes its existence as a world language in large part to the struggle against imperialism but not to imperialism alone. To explain English varieties, the book introduces a new linguistic model of second language acquisition by speech communities: macroacquisition.

 

 

Ten chapters focus on the following:

(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"; and

(10) "Decentering English Applied Linguistics."

(Contains approximately 400 references.) (SM)

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