Braj Kachru

Collected Works of Braj B. Kachru, Volume 1

Herausgeber: Webster, Jonathan J

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Produktbeschreibung

Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews. The first volume of these Collected Works brings together a number of Kachru's key papers from 1976 to 1990, covering Kachru's early work in the development of World Englishes as a concept and his exploration of non-native varieties of English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781441107596
• ISBN-10: 1441107592
• Artikelnr.: 40495293

Autorenporträt

Braj Kachru is Center for Advanced Study Professor of Linguistics and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Emeritus, USA. Jonathan J. Webster is Director of The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Models of English for the third world: white man's
linguistic burden or language pragmatics (1976) 2. The new Englishes and
old dictionaries: directions in lexicographical research on non-native
varieties of English (1980) 3. The pragmatics of non-native varieties of
English (1981) 4. Meaning in deviation: toward understanding non-native
English texts (1982) 5. Regional norms for English (1984) 6. The alchemy of
English: social and functional power of non-native varieties (1984) 7. The
power and politics of English (1986) 8. Non-native literatures in English
as a resource for language teaching (1986) 9. The past and prejudice:
toward de-mythologizing the English Canon (1987) 10. ESP and non-native
varieties of English: toward a shift in paradigm (1988) 11. The spread of
English and sacred linguistic cows (1988) Bibliography Index