Global Englishes

Global Englishes, Fourth Edition has been fully revised and updated and provides an introduction to the subject that is both accessible and comprehensive.

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.

Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, and commentaries.

Global Englishes, Fourth Edition has been fully revised and updated and provides an introduction to the subject that is both accessible and comprehensive.

Key features of this best-selling textbook include:

• coverage of the major historical, linguistic, and sociopolitical developments in the English language from the start of the seventeenth century to the present day;

• exploration of the current debates in Global Englishes, relating to its uses as a post-colonial language in Asia and Africa, a mother tongue in the US, UK, and Antipodes, and lingua franca across the globe, with a strong emphasis on China;

• new material on Latin America, English as a lingua franca, and English medium instruction;

• a range of texts, data, and examples drawn from emails, tweets, and newspapers;

• readings from key scholars including Alastair Pennycook, Henry Widdowson, and Lesley Milroy;

• updated online support material providing additional materials that are closely linked to each unit of the book.

Global Englishes, Fourth Edition provides a dynamic and engaging introduction to this fascinating topic and is essential reading for all students studying global Englishes more broadly, English as a Lingua Franca specifically, and the factors involved in the spread of English in the world today.

Autorentext

Jennifer Jenkins has written for Hippocampus Magazine, NonBinary Review, Up North Lit, Canopy Review, Parentheses Journal, and others. She earned two Glimmer Train Fiction Award honorable mentions and a nomination for a PEN America Short Story Award. She has also worked in the theater, with Manhattan Theatre Club, Sondheim's Young Playwrights, and the PBS series Great Performances.

Klappentext

Global Englishes, Fourth Edition has been fully revised and updated and provides an introduction to the subject that is both accessible and comprehensive.

Inhalt

List of figures and tables

Preface to the fourth edition

Acknowledgements

Unit 1 The historical, social, and political context

1A Introduction to the historical, social, and political context

1B The legacy of colonialism

1C Postcolonial Africa and North America

1D The discourses of postcolonialism

Unit 2 Who speaks English today?

2A Who speaks English today?

2B The English Today debate

2C Teaching and testing global Englishes

2D Who owns English today?

Unit 3 English as an international lingua franca

3A English as an international lingua franca

3B The nature of ELF communication

3C The evolution of thinking about ELF

3D Looking ahead

Unit 4 English and ELF in global education

4A English and ELF in global education

4B Towards the ELF-informed ELT classroom

4C Problematising English in EMI higher education

4D The end of 'international' standardized English language testing?

Unit 5 Standard language ideology in the Anglophone world

5A Standard language ideology in the Anglophone world

5B Diversity across the Anglophone space

5C Standards across channels

5D Is language (still) power in the Inner Circle?

Unit 6 Variation across postcolonial Englishes

6A Variation across postcolonial Englishes

6B 'Legitimate' and 'illegitimate' offspring of English

6C 'Sub'-varieties of English: the example of singlish

6D From language to literature

Unit 7 English in Asia, Europe, and Latin America

7A English in Asia, Europe, and Latin America

7B En route to new linguistic practices

7C Asian Englishes: focus on India, Hong Kong, and China

7D Attitudes to non-native Englishes in China

Unit 8 The future of global Englishes

8A Introduction to the future of global Englishes

8B Possible future scenarios

8C Language killer or language promoter?

8D Looking ahead

Further reading

References

Glossarial index