Post Imperial English

Author : Andrew W. Conrad,Alma Rubal-Lopez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110872187

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Post-Imperial English by Andrew W. Conrad,Alma Rubal-Lopez Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : Kingsley Bolton,Braj B. Kachru
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415315069

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World Englishes by Kingsley Bolton,Braj B. Kachru Pdf

Author : Milton Sarkar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443888349

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Englishness and Post-imperial Space by Milton Sarkar Pdf

Englishness and Post-imperial Space: The Poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes probes into the English mindset immediately after the British withdrawal from the colonies, and examines how the loss of power and global prestige affected contemporary poetry, particularly that of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. Frustration and disillusionment, even anger, characterised the era and many of the literary works the period produced. Most writers became insular and were obsessed with the ‘English’ elements in their writing. The great, international and cosmopolitan themes (of Eliot, for instance) were replaced by those of narrow domestic importance. It is in such a context, this book argues, that Larkin and Hughes returned to the old England, most notably to the themes of gradually vanishing pristine landscape and national myths and legends, to the archetypal English customs and conventions. It examines their poetry mainly from the perspective of Englishness, a burgeoning area of academic interest. Intricately connected with the values emanating from England as a geographical and socio-cultural space, Englishness as a concept is intrinsic to the identity of a people who gradually became globally powerful. The loss of empire dealt a severe blow to this sense of the self. This book explores the dynamics of the representation of this sense of loss and the frustration it produced in the poems of Larkin and Hughes.

Author : Ulrich Ammon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 311016647X

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The Dominance of English as a Language of Science by Ulrich Ammon Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : Vladimir Biti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110732245

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Post-imperial Literature by Vladimir Biti Pdf

This book proposes a new departure point for the investigation of transnational literary alliances: the traumatic constellation of translatio imperii, which followed the dissolution of the East-Central European empires in the 1920s and the crumbling of the West European colonial empires in the 1950s. To prevent their breakdown, the former transitioned from a ‘sovereign’ to a ‘disciplinary’ mode of administration of their peripheries, the latter from the merciless assimilation of their colonial constituencies to their affirmative regeneration. This book treats Franz Kafka as the writer of the first transition, prefiguring J. M. Coetzee as the writer of the second. In a series of close readings, it investigates the particular ways in which the restructuring of power relations between the agencies in their fictions is a response to the delineated post-imperial reconfiguration of the new countries’ governmental techniques. By displacing their narrative authority beyond the reach of their readers, they laid bare the sudden withdrawal of transcendental guarantees from the world of human commonality. This entailed an unstable and elusive configuration of their fictional worlds as a key feature of post-imperial literature.

Author : Thomas Burns McArthur,Roshan McArthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English philology
ISBN : 9780192806376

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Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language by Thomas Burns McArthur,Roshan McArthur Pdf

From Sanskrit to Scouse, this book provides a single-volume source of information about the English language. The guide is intended both for reference and and for browsing. The international perspective takes in language from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Zummerzet, Estuary English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Beowulf to Ebonics, Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. There is coverage of a wide range of topics from abbreviation to Zeugma, Shakespeare to split infinitive and substantial entries on key subjects such as African English, etymology, imperialism, pidgin, poetry, psycholinguistics and slang. Box features include pieces on place-names, the evolution of the alphabet, the story of OK, borrowings into English, and the Internet. Invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for the general reader with an interest in language.

Author : Tom McArthur,Jacqueline Lam-McArthur,Lise Fontaine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780191073878

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Oxford Companion to the English Language by Tom McArthur,Jacqueline Lam-McArthur,Lise Fontaine Pdf

The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. It is intended both for reference and for browsing. The first edition of this landmark Companion, published in 1998, adopted a strong international perspective, covering topics from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. It succinctly described and discussed the English language at the end of the twentieth century, including its distribution and varieties, its cultural, political, and educational impact worldwide, its nature, origins, and prospects, and its pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, word-formation, and usage. This new edition notably focuses on World Englishes, English language teaching, English as an international language, and the effect of technological advances on the English language. More than 130 new entries include African American English, British Sign Language, China English, digital literacy, multimodality, social networking, superdiversity, and text messaging, among many others. It also includes new biographical entries on key individuals who have had an impact on the English language in recent decades, including Beryl (Sue) Atkins, Adam Kilgariff, and John Sinclair. It is an invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for any general reader with an interest in language.

Author : Alan Davies,Catherine Elder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470756751

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The Handbook of Applied Linguistics by Alan Davies,Catherine Elder Pdf

The Handbook of Applied Linguistics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the field of Applied Linguistics. Provides a comprehensive and current picture of the field of Applied Linguistics. Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that examine both the applications of linguistics to language data and the use of real world language to ameliorate social problems. Valuable resource for students and researchers in applied linguistics, language teaching, and second language acquisition. Presents applied linguistics as an independent discipline that unifies practical experience and theoretical understanding of language development and language in use.

Author : Annalisa Bonomo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443869386

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World English(es) and the Multilingual Turn by Annalisa Bonomo Pdf

The recent multilingual turn involves various different implicit and explicit language policies, urging pressure and resistance with regard to the spread of English and its dominant relationships with other national languages. As such, this book considers the social value of communication as the basis of multilingualism and of the evolution of language systems. The data presented here show English as being in the middle of the double “listening” of cultural mediation and the imperfect “magnifying” glass of translation, with worldwide Standard English being but one of the many other related varieties which enjoy prestige on a large scale. These varieties may be identified according to different features which make the plural “world Englishes” an umbrella term with blurred edges. New approaches to dialects study have been developed in recent decades, and cartographic mapping has overlapped with the emergence of a new dialectology which deals with the description of language phenomena as complex concepts, where “complexity” provides a challenging framework for investigation and research of languages as dynamic systems made up of variables which mutually influence each other. Thus, dialectometry, dialectology and standardization become interesting tools for measuring linguistic differences, establishing language typologies and endorsing the systemic characteristics which can be formalized. Comprehensive and well-informed, this volume will appeal to anyone interested in the spread of English, from researchers and teachers to students, providing them with a greater understanding of some examples of world Englishes analysed under the light of complexity as a product of global society.

Author : Sandra Mollin
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 382336250X

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Euro-English by Sandra Mollin Pdf

Author : Marlis Hellinger,Anne Pauwels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198539

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Handbook of Language and Communication: Diversity and Change by Marlis Hellinger,Anne Pauwels Pdf

In line with the overall perspective of the Handbook series, the focus of Vol.9 is on language-related problems arising in the context of linguistic diversity and change, and the contributions Applied Linguistics can offer for solutions. Part I, “Language minorities and inequality,” presents situations of language contact and linguistic diversity as world-wide phenomena. The focus is on indigenous and immigrant linguistic minorities, their (lack of) access to linguistic rights through language policies and the impact on their linguistic future .Part II “Language planning and language change,” focuses on the impact of colonialism, imperialism, globalisation and economics as factors that language policies and planning measures must account for in responding to problems deriving from language contact and linguistic diversity. Part III, “Language variation and change in institutional contexts,” examines language-related problems in selected institutional areas of communication (education, the law, religion, science, the Internet) which will often derive from socioeconomic, cultural and other non-linguistic asymmetries. Part IV, “The discourse of linguistic diversity and language change,” analyses linguistic diversity, language change and language reform as issues of public debates which are informed by different ideological positions, values and attitudes (e.g. with reference to sexism, racism, and political correctness).The volume also contains extensive reference sections and index material.

Author : Braj B. Kachru,Yamuna Kachru,Cecil L. Nelson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405188319

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The Handbook of World Englishes by Braj B. Kachru,Yamuna Kachru,Cecil L. Nelson Pdf

The Handbook of World Englishes is a collection of newly commissioned articles focusing on selected critical dimensions and case studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied and pedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around the world. Represents the cross-cultural and international contextualization of the English language Articulates the visions of scholars from major varieties of world Englishes – African, Asian, European, and North and South American Discusses topics including the sociolinguistic contexts of varieties of English in the inner, outer, and expanding circles of its users; the ranges of functional domains in which these varieties are used; the place of English in language policies and language planning; and debates about English as a cause of language death, murder and suicide.

Author : Hans-Georg Wolf
Publisher : Leipziger Universitätsverlag
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Englisch
ISBN : 3865831575

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Focus on English by Hans-Georg Wolf Pdf

Author : Thomas Ricento
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405144629

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An Introduction to Language Policy by Thomas Ricento Pdf

An Introduction to Language Policy: Theories and Method is a collection of newly-written chapters that cover the major theories and methods currently employed by scholars active in the field. provides an accessible introduction to the study of language policy research and language’s role in social life consists of newly commissioned essays written by internationally recognized scholars helps define and describe a growing field of inquiry and is an authoritative source for students, scholars and researchers in linguistics, applied linguistics, education, policy studies and related areas includes section overviews, annotated chapter bibliographies, and discussion questions

Author : Ee Ling Low,Anne Pakir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429782060

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English in East and South Asia by Ee Ling Low,Anne Pakir Pdf

This book provides a first systematic and comprehensive account of English in East and South Asia (EESA) based on current research by scholars in the field. It has several unique features. Firstly, it provides a rigorous theoretical overview that is necessary for the understanding of EESA in relation to the burgeoning works on World Englishes as a discipline. Secondly, in the section on linguistic features, a systematic template was made available to the contributors so that linguistic coverage of the variety/varieties is similar. Thirdly, the vibrancy of the sociolinguistic and pragmatic realities that govern actual English in use in a wide variety of domains such as social media, the Internet and popular culture/music are discussed. Finally, this volume includes an extensive bibliography of works on EESA, thus providing a useful and valuable resource for language researchers, linguists, classroom educators, policymakers and anyone interested in the topic of EESA or World Englishes. This volume hopes to advance understanding of the spread and development of the different sub-varieties reflecting both the political developments and cultural norms in the region.