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Global Englishes : a resource book for students / Jennifer Jenkins

Author
Jenkins, Jennifer, 1950-
Uniform Title
World Englishes
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Description
xvi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: A.Introduction: key topics in global Englishes -- 1.The historical, social, and political context -- 2.Who speaks English today? -- 3.Standard language ideology in the Anglophone world -- 4.Variation across postcolonial Englishes -- 5.Pidgin and Creole languages -- 6.English as an international lingua franca -- 7.English in Asia and Europe -- 8.The future of global Englishes -- B.Development: implications and issues -- 1.The legacy of colonialism -- 2.The English Today debate -- 3.Standards across Anglophone space -- 4.`Legitimate' and `illegitimate' offspring of English -- 5.Characteristics of pidgin and creole languages -- 6.The nature of ELF communication -- 7.En route to new standard Englishes -- 8.Possible future scenarios -- C.Exploration: current debates in global Englishes -- 1.Postcolonial Africa and North America -- 2.Teaching and testing global Englishes -- 3.Standards across channels -- 4.`Sub'-varieties of English: the example of Singlish -- 5.Creole developments in the UK and US -- 6.ELF and education -- 7.Asian Englishes: focus on India, Hong Kong, and China -- 8.Language killer or language promoter? -- D.Extension: readings in global Englishes -- 1.The discourses of postcolonialism (Alastair Pennycook) -- 2.Who owns English today? (Henry G. Widdowson) -- 3.Is language (still) power in the Inner Circle? (Lesley Milroy, Alfred Lee and Dennis Bloodworth) -- 4.From language to literature (Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong'o) -- 5.The status of pidgin languages in education (Samuel Atechi) -- 6.The challenge of testing ELF (Jennifer Jenkins and Constant Leung) -- 7.Attitudes to non-native Englishes in China and mainland Europe (Ying Wang and Ulrich Ammon) -- 8.Looking ahead (Alastair Pennycook).
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ISBN
9780415638432 (hbk.)
0415638437 (hbk.)
9780415638449 (pbk.)
0415638445 (pbk.)
Note
Previously published as: World Englishes: a resource book for students / Jennifer Jenkins, 2nd ed., 2009.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index.
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