Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today

by R. Tupas (Editor)

Overview

This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike many studies on the pluralization of English, the volume assumes that inequalities and Englishes are inextricably linked and must be understood and theorized together.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137461223
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	05/26/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	267
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Siew Kheng Catherine Chua, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Eric Henry, Carleton University, Canada Christina Higgins, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA Peter Ives, University of Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada Ryuko Kubota, The University of British Columbia, Canada Lin Pan, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Ian Martin, Glendon College, York University, Canada Brian Morgan, Glendon College, York University, Canada Phan Le Ha, University of Hawai'i at M?noa, USA Vaidehi Ramanathan, University of California at Davis, USA Rani Rubdy, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Joseph Sung-Yul Park, National University of Singapore Aileen O. Salonga, University of the Philippines in Diliman, Philippines Glenn Toh, Tamagawa University, Japan Ruanni Tupas, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Table of Contents

Foreword; Arjuna Parakrama Introduction: From World Englishes to Unequal Englishes; Ruanni Tupas and Rani Rubdy PART I: APPROACHES TO UNEQUAL ENGLISHES 1. Inequalities of Englishes, English Speakers, and Languages: A Critical Perspective of Pluralist Approaches to English; Ryuko Kubota 2. Unequal Englishes, the Native Speaker, and Decolonization in TESOL; Rani Rubdy 3. Structures of Feeling in Unequal Englishes; Joseph Sung-Yul Park 4. Global English and Inequality: The Contested Ground of Linguistic Power; Peter Ives PART II: ENGLISHES IN NEXUSES OF POWER AND INEQUALITY 5. 'Just an Old Joke': Chinglish, Narrative and Linguistic Inequality in the Chinese English Classroom; Eric S. Henry 6. English in Japan: Indecisions, Inequalities and Practices of Relocalization; Glenn Toh 7. Performing Gayness and English in an Offshore Call Center Industry; Aileen O. Salonga PART III: ENGLISHES IN CHANGING MULTILINGUAL SPACES 8. Earning Capital in Hawai'i's Linguistic Landscape; Christina HigginS 9. Glocalization and the Spread of Unequal Englishes: Vernacular Signs in the Centre of Beijing; Lin Pan 10. Singlish Strikes Back in Singapore; Chua, Siew Kheng Catherine PART IV: ENGLISHES IN UNEQUAL LEARNING SPACES 11. Contesting the Raj's 'Divide and Rule' Policies: Linguistic Apartheid, Unequal Englishes, and the Postcolonial Framework; Vaidehi Ramanathan 12. Unequal Englishes in Imagined Intercultural Interactions; Phan Le Ha 13. Preparing Teachers for 'Unequal Englishes': The D-TEIL Experience in Cuba; Ian Martin and Brian Morgan

Editorial Reviews

The volume engages its readers to consider and weigh the challenges faced by a wide range of users of English in their everyday lives, in their workplaces, education or social lives. … The editors have succeeded in making the volume cohesive and well-balanced, having aptly divided the contributions into 4 subthemes that interconnect subtly with the title of the volume.” (Paula Prescod, The Linguist List, linguistlist.org, June, 2016)

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