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The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language

Name: The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language
Author: Alastair Pennycook

Alastair Pennycook

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The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language

Alastair Pennycook

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Covering a wide range of areas including international politics, colonial history, critical pedagogy, postcolonial literature and applied linguitics, this book examines ways to understand the cultural and political implications of the global spread of English.Firstly, it explores how a particular view of English as an international language has come into being by examining its colonial origins, its connections to linguistics and applied linguistics, and its relationships to the global spread of teaching practices. It then offers an alternative, critical understanding through the concept of the 'worldliness' of English. This concept suggests that English can never be removed from the social, cultural, economic or political contexts in which it is used.

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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2014

ISBN

9781317892366

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Langues et linguistique

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Linguistique

Index

Achebe C 259–261, 263–266, 291, 301
African literature 259–261, 263–266, 268, 292, 301
Negritude 268
Agard J 316
Alatas SH 83, 84, 90, 96, 183, 187, 193
Aliran Monthly 220 (n3), 279
Altbach P 21, 48
Anglicism (Orientalism ) 73–76, 78, 82, 84, 86, 146, 179
and English studies 96–102
Anwar Ibrahim 202, 217
applied linguistics 6, 13
- and the British Council 149–152
- Center for 149
- and critical pedagogy 299, 303
- as discipline 126–141
- and ELT 157, 165–176
- monolingualism 135–137
- phonocentrism 135–137
- positivism 137–141
- and Pygmalion 127–128
- simplified Englishes 129–133
- standardization 128, 129, 132, 133, 135, 137, 141, 175
- and US foreign policy 133–135
appropriating English 69–70, 179, 259–260, 267–270, 292, 296, 316
abrogation 267, 292
diremption/redemption 267, 269, 270, 292
Amove R 134, 153–154
Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin 1...