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Taylor & Francis Global Englishes A Resource Book for Students 2015 Edition by Jennifer Jenkins
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries, and key readings - all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible 'two-dimensional' structure is built around four sections - introduction, development, exploration, and extension - which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained.Global Englishes, Third Edition, previously published as World Englishes, has been comprehensively revised and updated and provides an introduction to the subject that is both accessible and comprehensive. Key features of this best-selling textbook include:coverage of the major historical, linguistic, and sociopolitical developments in the English language from the start of the seventeenth century to the present dayexploration of the current debates in global Englishes, relating to its uses as mother tongue in the US, UK, Antipodes, and post-colonial language in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and lingua franca across the rest of the globe, with a new and particularly strong emphasis on Chinaa range of texts, data and examples draw from emails, tweets and newspapers such as The New York Times, China Daily and The Straits Timesreadings from key scholars including Alastair Pennycook, Henry G. Widdowson and Lesley Milroyactivities that engage the reader by inviting them to draw on their own experience and consider their orientation to the particular topic in hand.Global Englishes, Third Edition provides a dynamic and engaging introduction to this fascinating topic and is essential reading for all students studying global Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and the spread of English in the world today. Table of contents :- A Introduction: key topics in Global Englishes The historical, social, and political contextWho speaks English today?Standard language ideology in the Anglophone worldVariation across post-colonial EnglishesPidgin and creole languagesEnglish as an international lingua francaEnglish in Asia and EuropeThe future of Global EnglishesB Development: implications and issuesThe legacy of colonialismThe English Today debateStandards across Anglophone space 'Legitimate' and 'illegitimate' offspring of EnglishCharacteristics of pidgin and creole languagesThe nature of ELF communicationEn route to new standard Englishes Possible future scenariosC Exploration: current debates in global EnglishesPostcolonial Africa and North AmericaTeaching and testing global Englishes Standards across channels 'Sub'-varieties of English: the example of SinglishCreole developments in the UK and USELF and education Asian Englishes: focus on India, Hong Kong and ChinaLanguage killer or language promoter?D Extension: readings in Global EnglishesThe discourses of postcolonialism (Alastair Pennycook)Who owns English today? (Henry G. Widdowson)Is language (still) power in the Inner Circle? (Lesley Milroy, Alfred Lee and Dennis Bloodworth)From language to literature (Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong'o)The status of pidgin languages in education (Samuel Atechi)The challenge of testing ELF (Jennifer Jenkins and Constant Leung)Attitudes to non-native Englishes in China and mainland Europe (Ying Wang, Ulrich Ammon)Looking ahead (Alastair Pennycook)