Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Date: 2002, Pages: 231
ISBN:1853595772, Size: 13.1 Mb, Format: PDF
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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