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Discursive Governance and Development Goals: A Performative Theory of Corporate Purpose in Sustainability Discourse

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
wiley   +1 more source

Business and Biodiversity: Scaling Conservation Enterprises Within and Beyond Place for Transformative Change

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transformative change is required to address persistent and systemic drivers of biodiversity loss. There is an urgent need for innovative solutions that tackle root causes in place‐specific contexts. Evidence indicates that small, innovative, purpose‐driven businesses can serve as vehicles for developing place‐based solutions.
Shova Thapa Karki, Bradley D. Parrish
wiley   +1 more source

Where does WE fit? Theoretical and practical considerations in integrating the world Englishes paradigm into Japanese higher education

open access: yesWhere does WE fit? Theoretical and practical considerations in integrating the world Englishes paradigm into Japanese higher education
openaire   +1 more source

Relocating English: towards a new paradigm for English in the world

Language and Intercultural Communication, 2009
Abstract The worldwide spread of English has recently received much interest. Issues relating to the multifaceted roles of English around the world have been highlighted and purist positions about English challenged. In particular (a) the assumption that British English is the only valid standard of English; and (b) the notion that the ‘native speaker’
Mario Saraceni
exaly   +3 more sources

World Englishes in English language teaching: Kachru's six fallacies and the TEIL paradigm

World Englishes, 2019
AbstractIn recent years, there has been increased interest among English language teaching (ELT) professionals in world Englishes (WE) studies. This article examines the influence of Braj Kachru's work and WE studies in general on ELT. After a brief historical overview of the disciplinary relationship between WE and ELT, it discusses the current place ...
Aya Matsuda
exaly   +2 more sources

The World Englishes Paradigm and Contact Linguistics: Refurbishing The Foundations

World Englishes, 2003
AbstractThis paper argues for a greater degree of rapprochement between the fields of world Englishes and Contact Linguistics. New Englishes are after all contact varieties, in the broad sense of the term and hold insights for creolistics, just as the latter has much to offer world Englishes research. One of the phases of ‘refurbishing the foundations’
Rajend Mesthrie
exaly   +2 more sources

The author-initiated discourses in the selected English textbooks in Southeast Asia: a World Englishes paradigm

Asian Englishes, 2016
ABSTRACTIn pedagogy, English textbooks in Southeast Asia are an integral part of propagating the use of English among the Asian learners. True to many ESL and EFL instruction, the use of textbook is an important tool for effective language teaching and learning.
exaly   +2 more sources

1.2. The world Englishes paradigm

Applications of Cognitive Linguistics, 2009
Frank Polzenhagen
exaly   +2 more sources

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