Global Englishes: A Resource Book for Students / Edition 3

by Jennifer Jenkins

Overview

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 day
• exploration 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 China
• a range of texts, data and examples draw from emails, tweets and newspapers such as The New York Times, China Daily and The Straits Times
• readings from key scholars including Alastair Pennycook, Henry G. Widdowson and Lesley Milroy
• activities 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415638449
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/14/2014
Series:	Routledge English Language Introductions
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Jenkins is Professor of Global Englishes and founding director of the Centre for Global Englishes at the University of Southampton.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables

Preface to fourth edition

Acknowledgements

 

Unit 1  The historical, social and political context

1A        Introduction to the historical, social and political context

1B        The legacy of colonialism

1C        Postcolonial North America and Africa

1D        The discourses of postcolonialism (Alastair Pennycook)

 

Unit 2  Who speaks English today?

2A        Introduction to who speaks English today?

2B        The English Today debate

2C        Teaching and testing global Englishes

2D        Who owns English today? (Henry Widdowson)

 

Unit 3  English as an international lingua franca

3A        Introduction to English as an international lingua franca

3B        The nature of ELF communication

3C        The evolution of thinking about ELF

3D        The future of English as a lingua franca (Jennifer Jenkins)

 

Unit 4   English and ELF in global education

4A        Introduction to English and ELF in global education

4B        Towards the ELF-informed classroom

4C        Problematising English in EMI higher education

4D        The end of ‘international’ standardised English language testing? (Jennifer Jenkins and Constant Leung)

 

Unit 5   Standard language ideology in the Anglophone world

5A        Introduction to standard language ideology in the Anglophone world

5B        Diversity across Anglophone space

5C        Standards across channels

5D        Is language (still) power in the inner circle? (Lesley Milroy)

 

Unit 6   Variation across postcolonial Englishes

6A        Introduction to variation across postcolonial Englishes

6B        ‘Legitimate’ and ‘illegitimate’ offspring of English

6C        ‘Sub’-varieties of English: the example of Singlish

6D        From language to literature (Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o)

 

Unit 7    English in Asia, Europe and Latin America

7A          Introduction to English in Asia, Europe and Latin America

7B          En route to new linguistic practices

7C          Asian Englishes: focus on India, Hong Kong and China

7D          Attitudes to non-native Englishes in China (Ying Wang)

 

Unit 8    The future of global Englishes

8A          Introduction to the future of global Englishes

8B          Possible future scenarios

8C          Language killer or language promoter?

8D          Looking ahead (Alastair Pennycook)

 

Further reading

References

Glossarial index

Editorial Reviews

"This new and revised edition of Global Englishes lives up to the success of previous editions, with the authors outlining a concern to expand the scope of themes in the area as a whole, offering the reader an even richer material and, in many aspects, brilliantly locally situated. Throughout the manuscript, we come across themes and issues anchored in sensitive grounds which stimulate, among many reflections, a critical view in relation to the political, ideological and pedagogical implications of the expansion of English around the world, its condition as a global lingua franca, contemplating, for instance, the production of knowledge in the field in commonly invisible contexts such as Latin America. An excellent and always timely resource for teachers, students and teacher trainers that is renewed and will certainly serve as a reference not only for differentiated ELT practices, but also for the investigative work of researchers in all parts of the planet."

Sávio Siqueira, Bahia Federal University, Brazil

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