World English: A Study of Its Development

World English: A Study of Its Development
Multilingual Matters Limited 2002 | ISBN:1853595772 | 215 pages | PDF | 14 Mb

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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