Joseph Sung-Yul Park, Lionel Wee

Markets of English (eBook, ePUB)

Linguistic Capital and Language Policy in a Globalizing World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book links Bourdieu's theory of the linguistic market with recent advances in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. The authors develop a new critique of global English, centered on the processes by which speakers attribute value and social meaning to the language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136320460
• Artikelnr.: 39266418

Autorenporträt

Joseph Park is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore.

Lionel Wee is an associate professor in the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents: Part 1: The problem of global English 1. Introduction: Towards a new critique of global English 2. The challenge: The complexity of global English 3. Theoretical preliminaries: Value, market, and practice Part 2: Past approaches to global English 4. Is there a market for English as a lingua franca? 5. Models and ideologies of world Englishes 6. Performing English in autonomous and unified markets Part 3: The making of global English 7. English as entity: The mystification of language 8. English as commodity: The life of indexical meaning 9. English as capital: The logic of conversion Part 4: Interrupting global English 10. Managing the linguistic market: Possible policy responses 11. Conclusions: Future of the critique of global English

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Selected Contents: Part 1: The problem of global English 1. Introduction:
Towards a new critique of global English 2. The challenge: The complexity
of global English 3. Theoretical preliminaries: Value, market, and practice
Part 2: Past approaches to global English 4. Is there a market for English
as a lingua franca? 5. Models and ideologies of world Englishes 6.
Performing English in autonomous and unified markets Part 3: The making of
global English 7. English as entity: The mystification of language 8.
English as commodity: The life of indexical meaning 9. English as capital:
The logic of conversion Part 4: Interrupting global English 10. Managing
the linguistic market: Possible policy responses 11. Conclusions: Future of
the critique of global English