World English: A Study of Its Development

Title: World English: A Study of Its Development
Author(s): Janina Brutt-Griffler
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
ISBN:1853595772
Date: 2002
Pages: 231
Size: 13.1 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

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.

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