Braj Kachru

Collected Works of Braj Kachru Vol 1-3

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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. This Collected Works encompasses Kachru's early, pioneering work: Volumes 1-3 cover the development of World Englishes as a concept and selections of his work on sociolinguistics, multilingualism and language contact. Volume 1 covers Kachru's work from 1976-1990. Volume 2 covers Kachru's work from 1992-2001. Volume 3 details Kachru's Studies in linguistics, multilingualism and language contact.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 10
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 79mm
• Gewicht: 1769g
• ISBN-13: 9781472539182
• ISBN-10: 1472539184
• Artikelnr.: 40627024

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

Volume 1 1. Models of English for the third world: white man's linguistics
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: towards 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) Volume 2 1. The Second Diaspora of English
(1992) 2. Introduction: The other side of English and the 1990s (1992) 3.
World Englishes: approaches, issues, and resources (1994) 4. New Englishes
(1994) 5. The Speaking Tree: a Medium of Plural Canons (1995) 6.
Transcultural creativity in World Englishes and literary Canons (1995) 7.
World Englishes (1996) 8. The Paradigms of Marginality (1996) 9. English as
Lingua Franca (1996) 10. World Englishes 2000: Resources for research and
teaching (1997) 11. World Englishes and culture wars (2001) Volume 3 1.
Linguistics schizophrenia and language census: a note on the Indian
situation (1977) 2. Towards structuring code-mixing: an Indian perspective
(1978) 3. Code-mixing as a communicative strategy in India (1978) 4.
Bilingualism (1981) 5. The bilingual's linguistics repertoire (1982) 6. An
overview of language policy and planning (1982) 7. Language policy in South
Asia (1982) 8. Institutionalized second-language varieties (1985) 9.
Standards, codification and sociolinguistic realism: the English language
in the outer circle (1985) 10. Current issues in bilingualism: an update of
directions in research (1985) 11. The bilingual's creativity (1986) 12.
Cultural contact and literary creativity in a multilingual setting society
(1992) 13. Multilingualism and multiculturalism (1992) 14. Speech community
(1994/1998)