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World Englishes and Culture Wars
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521532785
Veröffentl:
2019
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.05.2019
Seiten:
322
Autor:
Braj Kachru
Gewicht:
469 g
Format:
229x152x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Braj B. Kachru (1932-2016) spent most of his career at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and served as Head of the Department of Linguistics (1968-79), Director of the Division of English as an International Language (1985-91) and Director of the University's Center for Advanced Study (1996-2000). He became the Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Illinois in 1992, and the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University in 1998. He co-founded the International Association of World Englishes and the journal World Englishes, and authored or edited over a dozen books on World Englishes and Kashmiri.
Part I. World Englishes Today: 1. The agony and ecstasy; 2. The second diaspora; 3. Culture wars; 4. Standards and codification; 5. The power and politics; Part II. Context and Creativity: 6. The speaking tree; 7. Creativity and literary canons; Part III. Past and Prejudice: 8. Liberation linguistics; 9. Sacred linguistic cows; 10. The paradigms of marginalization; Part IV. Ethical Issues and the ELT Empire: 11. Applying linguistics; 12. Leaking paradigms; Part V. World Englishes and the Classroom: 13. Mythology in teaching; Part VI. Research Areas and Resources: 14. Research resources.