Unequal Englishes

The Politics of Englishes Today

  • Editors
  • Ruanni Tupas
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: From World Englishes to Unequal Englishes

    1. Introduction: From World Englishes to Unequal Englishes
      Ruanni Tupas, Rani Rubdy
      Pages 1-17

  3. Approaches to Unequal Englishes

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 19-19
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    2. Inequalities of Englishes, English Speakers, and Languages: A Critical Perspective on Pluralist Approaches to English
      Ryuko Kubota
      Pages 21-41
    3. Unequal Englishes, the Native Speaker, and Decolonization in TESOL
      Rani Rubdy
      Pages 42-58
    4. Structures of Feeling in Unequal Englishes
      Joseph Sung-Yul Park
      Pages 59-73
    5. Global English and Inequality: The Contested Ground of Linguistic Power
      Peter Ives
      Pages 74-91

  4. Englishes in Nexuses of Power and Inequality

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 93-93
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    2. ‘Just an Old Joke’: Chinglish, Narrative, and Linguistic Inequality in the Chinese English Classroom
      Eric S. Henry
      Pages 95-110
    3. English in Japan: Indecisions, Inequalities, and Practices of Relocalization
      Glenn Toh
      Pages 111-129
    4. Performing Gayness and English in an Offshore Call Center Industry
      Aileen O. Salonga
      Pages 130-142

  5. Englishes in Changing Multilingual Spaces

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 143-143
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    2. Earning Capital in Hawai‘i’s Linguistic Landscape
      Christina Higgins
      Pages 145-162
    3. Glocalization and the Spread of Unequal Englishes: Vernacular Signs in the Center of Beijing
      Lin Pan
      Pages 163-184
    4. Singlish Strikes Back in Singapore
      Catherine Chua Siew Kheng
      Pages 185-200

  6. Englishes in Unequal Learning Spaces

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 201-201
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    2. Contesting the Raj’s ‘Divide and Rule’ Policies: Linguistic Apartheid, Unequal Englishes, and the Postcolonial Framework
      Vaidehi Ramanathan
      Pages 203-222
    3. Unequal Englishes in Imagined Intercultural Interactions
      Phan Le Ha
      Pages 223-243
    4. Preparing Teachers for ‘Unequal Englishes’: The D-TEIL Experience in Cuba
      Ian Martin, Brian Morgan
      Pages 244-264
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 265-267
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

World Englishes politics of English TESOL linguistic landscapes linguistic inequality English English classroom multilingual

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137461223
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-49885-7
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-46122-3
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