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Yamuna Kachru and world Englishes
World Englishes, 2015ABSTRACTProfessor Yamuna Kachru brought an enormous energy and commitment to the world Englishes (WE) enterprise over three decades. Her research and publications were characterized by a unique intelligence, informed by her expert knowledge of South Asian linguistics, as well as a lively and curious intellect fascinated by many other aspects of ...
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Kachru's redeeming myth of world Englishes
World Englishes, 2019AbstractMichael Halliday once stated that all theories employ metaphors in order to express their essence, which might be restated as ‘every theory is a myth for what it is theorizing’. In his early work, Braj Kachru set out to creatively and critically ‘de‐mythologize’ the English canon, and in its stead introduced the new metaphor of the ‘Three ...
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English as a plural language: The significance of Yamuna Kachru
World Englishes, 2015ABSTRACTIn a distinguished career spanning five decades Professor Yamuna Kachru enriched several areas of linguistics and applied language studies. This initial appreciation attempts to show how her family background, education, and experience on three continents shaped her interests and perspectives.
S. N SRIDHAR, KAMAL K. SRIDHAR
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Professor Braj B. Kachru and intelligibility
World Englishes, 2019AbstractProfessor Braj Kachru instituted the school of world Englishes in his forthright examinations of the bases of the criteria that could reasonably be argued to constitute ‘good English’ and to define ‘an English speaker’. One specific stream of those investigations is that of intelligibility in terms of the features which English users need to ...
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Redefining Kachru's ‘Outer Circle’ of English
English Today, 1998A re-examination of a widely-established view of how English works in the ...
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Kachru's circles and the growth of professionalism in TESOL
English Today, 2005[The text of a plenary paper presented as Distinguished Speaker at the conference Globalization and World Englishes: Identity and Creativity, convened by the International Association of World Englishes (IAWE) at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA, 16–18 July 2004.]I MUST START with two disclaimers: First, my name is not James E. Alatis.
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English across cultures: the Kachru Catch
English Today, 1991GERRY ABBOTT of the School of Education, the University of Manchester, replies to Braj Kachru's article ‘Liberation linguistics and the Quirk Concern’ (ET 25, Jan 91).
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Yamuna Kachru's contribution to linguacultural studies
World Englishes, 2015ABSTRACTThis paper summarizes the major theses Professor Yamuna Kachru developed in the field of linguaculture: the relations between language and culture, role of English diversity in enriching speaker's worldview, dependence of language dynamics on the change of the sociocultural context; cultural specifics of text types; the culture's effects on ...
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World Englishes and postcolonialism: Reading Kachru and Said
World Englishes, 2012ABSTRACT: Prompted by a recurrent question from students, this paper examines perspectives from world Englishes and postcolonial studies in relation to one another. Focusing on two critical thinkers, Braj B. Kachru and Edward W. Said, each section highlights relevant themes and ideas from selected works of each scholar and discusses points of ...
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