附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-212) and index.
Contents -- Glossary -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Images of World English: Writing English as an International Language -- Chapter 2 The Representation of the Social in a Social Science: Methodology in Linguistics -- Chapter 3 Ideological and Economic Crosscurrents of Empire -- Chapter 4 The Contested Terrain of Colonial Language Policy -- Chapter 5 Access Denied: Containing the Spread of English -- Chapter 6 The Becoming of a World Language -- Chapter 7 Macroacquisition: Bilingual Speech Communities and Language Change
Chapter 8 The Macroacquisition of English: New Representations in the LanguageChapter 9 (The) World (of) English: Englishes in Convergence -- Chapter 10 Decentering English Applied Linguistics -- Appendices -- References -- Index
摘要:This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, combining that with a study of its langauge change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and change of English, putting forward a new framework of language spread and change.
