Post-Imperial English: Status Change in Former British and American Colonies, 1940-1990: 72 (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL], 72) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 3110147548 ISBN 13: 9783110147544

Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton, 1996

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

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The volume deals with three interlocking questions: is English 'still' spreading in the non-English native-speaking world? If so, is this continued spread in any way directly orchestrated by, fostered by, or exploitatively beneficial to the English native-speaking world? Are there forces or processes which transcend the English mother-tongue world itself and which may also be contributing noticeably to the continued spread and entrenchment of English in non-English mother-tongue countries? The book presents a wealth of case studies each of which has been written by academics who were residents and/or have long been specialists in the status of English in the setting which they have been asked to describe and analyze. A detailed summary and interpretation confronts the individual findings with each other on the one hand, and with the recently proposed linguistic imperialism hypothesis on the other.

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• Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 3110147548
• ISBN 13: 9783110147544
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 664
• Herausgeber: Conrad Andrew W., Rubal-Lopez Alma