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Author Huddart, David (David Paul), author.

Title Involuntary associations : postcolonial studies and world Englishes / David Huddart.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 164 pages .)
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Series Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 15
Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Summary The consequences of Englishes spread have become increasingly clear to its diverse speakers. Sometimes associated with a standardization leading to homogenization, often also with imperialism, English is increasingly understood to have no necessary connection with any country or group of countries. The willingness to accept that English has become Englishes might be less evident among so-called native speakers, but their authority is weaker than it seemed. This book puts examples from World Englishes into dialogue with postcolonial studies. The dialogue will correct misconceptions and misapprehensions in postcolonial studies, with World Englishes offering renewal for postcolonial studies. At the same time, the dialogue will also apply postcolonial studies' political and philosophical ideas to World Englishes, resulting in a postcolonial perspective on English today.
Contents Involuntary associations : "Postcolonial Studies" and "World Englishes" -- Grammars of living break their Tense : world Englishes and cultural translation -- English in the conversation of mankind : world Englishes and global citizenship -- Declarations of linguistic independence: the postcolonial dictionary -- Writing after the end of empire : Composition, community, and creativity -- Slow reading : the opacity of world literatures -- Conclusion : English remains, englishes remain.
Language English.
Note This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Subject English language -- Foreign countries.
Postcolonialism -- Language.
English language -- Globalization -- Social aspects.
Anglais (Langue) -- Pays étrangers.
Postcolonialisme -- Langage.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literary studies: general.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
English language -- Foreign countries
Englisch
Weltsprache
Sprachvariante
Verkehrssprache
Postkolonialismus
Indexed Term Literature
Postcolonial
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