A01=Bertus van Rooy
applied linguistics
Author_Bertus van Rooy
Category=CFB
English as a Lingua Franca
English as an International Language
English language
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global English
grassroots English
language contact
language variation and change
sociolinguistics
translanguaging
varieties of English
World Englishes
Product details
- ISBN 9781474486293
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 2024
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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World Englishes traces the recent history of English, the social forces that contribute to shape the language contact, use, acquisition and attitudes and the ensuing variation in the language. English continues to diversify across space, time and contexts of use, but ongoing interactions among people constrain diversification.Different chapters examine the competing perspectives of English settlers who fashion a new English during interactions in new colonies; of enslaved or economically marginalised people who became native speakers themselves; of colonial subjects who were compelled into using English but then claimed ownership of it; of global citizens who learn and use English today; and of contemporary migrants and digital netizens who blend English into densely multilingual encounters. The book critically examines the politics and ethics of English as dominant global language today, while glimpsing into the future.
Bertus van Rooy is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam
