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Linguistic Justice in World Englishes: A View From Cultural Appropriation

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article highlights the need to better clarify what we understand by linguistic justice. Failure to do so poses the danger that the concept not only remains something we may clamour for but is also one that we are unable or unwilling to recognize should we ever encounter it.
Lionel Wee
wiley   +1 more source

The Use and Functions of English in Egyptian Social Media

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the contemporary functions of English in Egypt through two interrelated lines of inquiry. First, it provides an updated account of the status and roles of English in the country, revisiting and extending Schaub's assessment in light of significant historical, socio‐economic and linguistic developments over the past two ...
Lucia La Causa
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Justice and the Politics of English(es)

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this afterword, I focus on two key contributions that this special issue provides for ongoing discussions of linguistic justice in relation to the internationalization of English. The first is its attempt to address previously reductionist accounts of linguistic justice in political theory, which construct languages only in relation to ...
Stephen May
wiley   +1 more source

Equality Amongst Speakers of English: Distributive and Relational Approaches

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how egalitarians should characterise the complex and multifaceted inequalities associated with the ongoing global spread of English(es). We argue that global linguistic inequality today cannot be reduced to a single dimension, such as inequality of power or status.
Andrew Shorten, Sergi Morales‐Gálvez
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to the Special Issue on English Worldwide and Linguistic Justice

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Three decades after Kachru's characterization of English as a source of both “agony and ecstasy,” debates about its global spread remain ambivalent. Despite significant advances in world Englishes scholarship, celebratory and critical stances toward English continue to coexist, sharpened by the political polarization of our times, and renewed ...
Josep Soler
wiley   +1 more source

"What language does global business speak?" - The concept and development of BELF

Ibérica, 2013
This paper focuses on the development of the concept of BELF, which originally stood for Business English as Lingua Franca , but later we have used the abbreviation to refer to English as Business Lingua Franca .
Marja Kankaanranta, Leena Louhiala Salminen   +1 more
doaj  

English as a Lingua Franca: Negotiating Identity in Cross-cultural Encounters between Native and Non-native Speakers

, 2014
The aim of the present paper is to provide a characterization of how non-native speakers negotiate their own identity and try to establish themselves as language users rather than as language learners, on occasion of cross-cultural encounters.
POPPI, Franca
core  

English Worldwide and Linguistic Justice: Past and Present

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This opening article of the special issue “English worldwide and linguistic justice” starts from the premise that more interdisciplinary work is needed that bridges sociolinguistic research with linguistic justice theories to provide deeper, more nuanced understandings of the position and functions of English around the world today.
Josep Soler, Thomas Ricento
wiley   +1 more source