The Politics of English As a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies - ASNEL Papers 7

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Linguistics, Literature and the Postcolonial Englishes: An Introduction
Beyond Homogeny and Heterogeny: English as a Global and Worldly Language 3
English for the Globe, or Only for Globe-Trotters? The world of the EU 19
Linguistic Diversity and Biodiversity: The Threat from Killer Languages 31
English as the Supranational Language of Human Rights? 53
English as an Exotic Language 67
Global Languages O.ppress B.ut A.re L.iberating, Too: The Dialectics of English 87
Proregression and Dynamic Stasis: The Ambivalent Impact of English as Reflected in Postcolonial Writing 97
Towards Global Diglossia? English in the Sciences and the Humanities 107
The Recording of Vocabulary from the Major Varieties of English in the Oxford English Dictionary 119
English as a Lingua Franca and the Politics of Property 139
Language Advocacy and 'Conquest' Diglossia in the 'Anglophone' Caribbean 157
Decolonizing English: The Caribbean Counter-Thrust 179
Re-Reading the Religious Bodies of Postcolonial Literature 203
An African's Trouble with His Masters' Voices 209
Home, Hybridity and (Post)colonial Discourse in Caryl Phillips's: A State of Independence 219
When 2+9=1: English and the Politics of Language Planning in a Multilingual Society: South Africa 235
The Democratization of Language Policy: A Cultural-Linguistic Analysis of the Status of English in Kenya 247
Postcolonial Language Planning in Tanzania: What Are the Difficulties and What is the Way Out? 267
"Hear from my own lips": The Language of Women's Autobiographies 279
Linguistic and Literary Development of Nigerian Pidgin: The Contribution of Radio Drama 289
"That's all out of shape": Language and Racism in South African Drama 305
Beyond the Domain of Literacy: The Illiterate Other in The Heart of the Matter, Things Fall Apart and Waiting for the Barbarians 315
"The nuisance one learns to put up with": English as a Linguistic Compromise in Es'kia Mphahlele's Fiction 325
The Interface of Language, Literature and Politics in Sri Lanka: A Paradigm for Ex-Colonies of Britain 337
The Master's Language and its Indian Uses 359
Bringing Back the Bathwater: New Initiatives in English Policy in Sri Lanka 367
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag and Yasmine Gooneratne's A Change of Skies 375
Imperial Pretensions and The Pleasures of Conquest 385
"Language is the skin of my thought": Language Relations in Ancient Promises and The God of Small Things 393
From "carefully modulated murmur" to "not a place for sooks": New Zealand Ways of Writing English 407
Maori or English? The Politics of Language in Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes 419
Language, Humour and Ethnic Identity Marking in New Zealand English 431
Metissage and Memory: The Politics of Literacy Education in Canadian Curriculum and Classrooms 457
"Joseph you know him he don trus dah Anglais" Or: English as Postcolonial Language in Canadian Indigenous Films 467
"When I was a child I spake as a child": Reflecting on the Limits of a Nationalist Language Policy 479
Contributors 493
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