Linguistic ImperialismOUP Oxford, 09.04.1992 - 374 Seiten This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of English as an international language, and sets out to analyse how and why the language has become so dominant. It looks at the spread of English historically, at the role it plays in Third World countries, and at the ideologies transmitted through the English language. |
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... positions in society . Just as schools were the principal instrument for alienating indigenous minorities from their ... position in the educational process in Asia as well as Africa . Singapore has four official languages , Chinese ...
... positions in society . Just as schools were the principal instrument for alienating indigenous minorities from their ... position in the educational process in Asia as well as Africa . Singapore has four official languages , Chinese ...
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... position . . . In this conflict within the alliance , American interests succeeded in taking over traditional British markets in Latin America and in partially displacing Britain in the Middle East , particularly Saudi Arabia ...
... position . . . In this conflict within the alliance , American interests succeeded in taking over traditional British markets in Latin America and in partially displacing Britain in the Middle East , particularly Saudi Arabia ...
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... position of English in the hierarchy of languages , nationally and internationally . The position of English as the international language par excellence was sketched out in Chapter 1. Something of the structural power of English , what ...
... position of English in the hierarchy of languages , nationally and internationally . The position of English as the international language par excellence was sketched out in Chapter 1. Something of the structural power of English , what ...
Inhalt
Taking stock of a world commodity | 1 |
English the dominant language | 17 |
Notes | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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academic activities African languages American analysis anglocentricity applied linguistics arguments bilingual Britain British Council Centre Chapter Commonwealth communication context cultural diplomacy discourse dominant language economic education systems élite ELT experts English language English linguistic imperialism English teaching European experience factors Ford Foundation foreign language French functions funding global goals higher education ibid ideological India influence institutions interview involved issues Kachru Kenya language in education language learning language planning language policy language teaching learners legitimate linguicism linguicist linguistic human rights London major Makerere Report medium of education monolingual mother tongue multilingual Namibia native speaker needs Nigeria norms Nuffield Foundation Nutford House official language overseas pedagogy Periphery periphery-English countries Perren Phillipson political problems professional programmes projects promotion relation relevant role second language Skutnabb-Kangas social structure Swahili SWAPO teacher training teaching of English tenet theoretical theory Unesco University Zambian languages