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Table of Contents

Linguistics, Literature And The Postcolonial Englishes : An Introduction / Christian Mair
Resisting (In) English : Globalization And Its Counter-Discourses Beyond Homogeny And Heterogeny : English As A Global And Worldly Language / Alastair Pennycook
English For The Globe, Or Only For Globe-Trotters? : The World Of The EU / Robert Phillipson
Linguistic Diversity And Biodiversity : The Threat From Killer Languages / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
English As The Supranational Language Of Human Rights? / Michael Toolan
English As An Exotic Language / Peter Muhlhausler
G. Lobal L. Anguages O. Ppress B. Ut A. Re L. Iberating, Too : The Dialectics Of English / Richard J. Alexander
Proregression And Dynamic Stasis : The Ambivalent Impact Of English As Reflected In Postcolonial Writing / Photis Lysandrou and Yvonne Lysandrou
Towards Global Diglossia? : English In The Sciences And The Humanities / Susanne Muhleisen
The Recording Of Vocabulary From The Major Varieties Of English In The Oxford English Dictionary / Jennie Price
English As A Lingua Franca And The Politics Of Property / Barbara Seidlhofer and Jennifer Jenkins
The Caribbean and The African Diaspora In North America And Britain Language Advocacy and "Conquest" Diglossia in the "Anglophone" Caribbean / Hubert Devonish
Decolonizing English : The Caribbean Counter-Thrust / Hazel Simmons-Mcdonald
Re-Reading the Religious Bodies of Postcolonial Literature / Fiona Darroch
An African's Trouble With His Masters' Voices / Michael Meyer
Home, Hybridity and (Post)colonial Discourse in Caryl Phillips's A State Of Independence / Petra Tournay
English And English-Language Writing In Africa When 2+9=1 : English and the Politics of Language Planning in a Multilingual Society : South Africa / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
The Democratization of Language Policy : A Cultural-Linguistic Analysis of the Status of English in Kenya / Kembo-Sure
Postcolonial Language Planning In Tanzania : What Are The Difficulties And What Is The Way Out? / Safari T.A. Mafu
"Hear from my own lips": the Language of Women's Autobiographies / Eleonora Chiavetta
Linguistic and Literary Development of Nigerian Pidgin : The Contribution of Radio Drama / Dagmar Deuber and Patrick Oloko
"That's all out of shape" : Language and Racism in South African Drama / Haike Frank
Beyond the Domain of Literacy : The Illiterate Other in The Heart of the Matter, Things Fall Apart and Waiting for the Barbarians / Helga RamseyKurz
"The nuisance one learns to put up with" : English as a Linguistic Compromise in Es'kia Mphahlele's Fiction / Richard Samin
The Politics Of English On The Asian Subcontinent
The Interface of Language, Literature and Politics in Sri Lanka : A Paradigm for Ex-Colonies of Britain / D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke
The Master's Language and its Indian Uses / Premila Paul
Bringing Back the Bathwater : New Initiatives in English Policy in Sri Lanka / Rajiva Wijesinha
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag and Yasmine Gooneratne's A Change of Skies / Vera Alexander
Imperial Pretensions and The Pleasures of Conquest / Yvette Tan
"Language is the skin of my thought" : Language Relations in Ancient Promises and The God of Small Things / Christine VogtWilliam
New Zealand, Canada, The Philippines : English In Multilingual Constellations Around The Pacific Rim
From "carefully modulated murmur" to "not a place for sooks" : New Zealand Ways of Writing English / Peter H. Marsden
Maori or English? : The Politics of Language in Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes / Michelle Keown
Language, Humour and Ethnic Identity Marking in New Zealand English / Janet Holmes, Maria Stubbe And Meredith Marra
Metissage and Memory : The Politics of Literacy Education in Canadian Curriculum and Classrooms / Erika Hasebe-Ludt
"Joseph you know him he don trus dah Anglais" Or : English as Postcolonial Language in Canadian Indigenous Films / Kerstin Knopf
"When I was a child I spake as a child" : Reflecting on the Limits of a Nationalist Language Policy / Danilo Manarpaac.

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Series
Cross/cultures -- 65, ASNEL papers -- 7, Cross/cultures -- 65., ASNEL papers -- 7.

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420
Library of Congress
PE1073 .P65 2003eb

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1 online resource (xxi, 497 p.)
Number of pages
497

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OL27081716M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
1417566655
ISBN 13
9781417566655
OCLC/WorldCat
57333004

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