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English as an imperial language: a qualitative study of Iraqi postgraduate EFL students
The global dominance of English has prompted debates on linguistic imperialism, wherein English is seen as marginalizing local languages and cultures. In postcolonial contexts, scholars like Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o argue that colonial languages were used to ...
Faraidoon Namiq +1 more
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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue
ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
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The Rise OF GLOBAL English: Linguistic Imperialism or INTERNATIONAL Identity
The monumental growth of the English language has made it a complicated International phenomenon, and it has given rise to a fierce academic controversy over whether it should be used as a pragmatic lingua franca or as a means of linguistic imperialism ...
Mahliyo, M. (Mamatkulova) +1 more
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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia
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
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Equality Amongst Speakers of English: Distributive and Relational Approaches
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
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REVIEW OF ROBERT PHILLIPSON, LINGUISTIC IMPERIALISM. OXFORD: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1992
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John Robert Schmitz
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The text provides an overview of the current issues raised by automatic translation systems operated by artificial intelligence. The authors highlight the way translation tools can reinforce a logic of linguistic imperialism but also, paradoxically ...
Virginie Buhl +2 more
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ABSTRACT English private tutoring (EPT) has become a major site of English learning for students in many examination‐oriented societies, yet world Englishes scholarship has rarely looked inside shadow education. This article compares how the same learners reason about their preferences for so‐called native and non‐native English‐speaking teachers ...
Kevin Wai Ho Yung
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English Worldwide and Linguistic Justice: Past and Present
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
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Effects of Linguistic Imperialism in Achieving Equity and Inclusion in English Language Teaching as a Second Language in Lesotho [PDF]
Even after efforts to decolonize education, post-colonial countries such as Lesotho are said to retain vestiges of colonial traditions in English language teaching.
Lebajoa, Puseletso Christin
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