Ian Mackenzie

Language Contact and the Future of English

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reflects on the future of the English language as used by native speakers, speakers of "nativized" New Englishes, and users of English as a lingua franca from a number of different dimensions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367593629
• ISBN-10: 0367593629
• Artikelnr.: 60074140

Autorenporträt

Ian MacKenzie formerly taught translation at the University of Geneva. He is the author of English as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English (2014), Paradigms of Reading: Relevance Theory and Deconstruction (2002), and a number of English language teaching coursebooks.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: English Today 2 Imperfect Learning and Multicompetence 3 Purposeful Language Change 4 Will English as a Lingua Franca Impact on Native English? 5 ELF and the Alternatives 6 Academic English
Epistemicide
and Linguistic Relativity 7 Bilingualism
Translation
and Anglicization 8 Conclusion: Language Contact and the Future of English