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American Imperialism and Environmental Concerns in Syed Waliullah's The Ugly Asian

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bangladeshi bilingual writer Syed Waliullah's novel in English, The Ugly Asian (2013), written during the 1960s but published posthumously in 2013, highlights the struggles of a fictional postcolonial nation in Asia in the face of American imperialism.
Rakibul Hasan Khan
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Preventing Erasure and Seeking Accountability in Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sixteen years after the end of the military conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009, there has been no real accountability for the atrocities that took place during the 26‐year war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan state. Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens and V. V.
Maryse Jayasuriya
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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
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Contextualising COVID-19: Sociocultural Perspectives on Contagion

, 2020
Lupton D.
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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
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From Ostalgie To Ostodium. The Anti-Communist Novel in Post-1989 East-Central Europe¹. [PDF]

Cent Eur
Stan A, Borza C.
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The Indian English Complaint Tradition: ‘Old Chestnuts’ and New Perspectives

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT English usage in India has been the target of a linguistic complaint tradition ‘which has taken the form of complaint about so‐called mis‐use of language and linguistic decline’ since the 19th century. The Indian English (IndE) complaint tradition in the 21st century has shifted from colonial to postcolonial in that IndE usage is now targeted ...
Claudia Lange, Sven Leuckert
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Is Medicine a Transnational Profession? A Comparative Study of Physicians’ Professional Knowledge and Practice in Ankara (Turkey), Beijing (China), Groningen (the Netherlands) and Würzburg (Germany)

Global Networks, Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2027.
ABSTRACT In this study of transnationalism in the professions, we use medicine as a contradictory test case because medicine relies on universalising scientific knowledge but caters to lay clients and is subject to nation state regulations. To determine whether medical knowledge and practice have transnationalised, we combine the lenses of neo ...
Anja Weiß, Tao Liu, Benjamin Quasinowski, Ilka Sommer   +3 more
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