The Politics of English as a World Language

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C. MAIR: Linguistics, Literature and the Postcolonial Englishes: An Introduction RESISTING (IN) ENGLISH: GLOBALIZATION AND ITS COUNTER-DISCOURSES A. PENNYCOOK: Beyond Homogeny and Heterogeny: English as a Global and Worldly Language R. PHILLIPSON: English for the Globe, or Only for Globe-Trotters? The world of the EU T. SKUTNABB-KANGAS: Linguistic Diversity and Biodiversity: The Threat from Killer Languages M. TOOLAN: English as the Supranational Language of Human Rights? P. MUHLHAUSLER: English as an Exotic Language R.J. ALEXANDER: G.lobal L.anguages O.ppress B.ut A.re L.iberating, Too: The Dialectics of English P. LYSANDROU & Y. LYSANDROU: Proregression and Dynamic Stasis: The Ambivalent Impact of English as Reflected in Postcolonial Writing S. MUHLEISEN: Towards Global Diglossia? English in the Sciences and the Humanities J. PRICE: The Recording of Vocabulary from the Major Varieties of English in the Oxford English Dictionary B. SEIDLHOFER & J. JENKINS: English as a Lingua Franca and the Politics of Property THE CARIBBEAN AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN NORTH AMERICA AND BRITAIN H. DEVONISH: Language Advocacy and 'Conquest' Diglossia in the 'Anglophone' Caribbean H. SIMMONS-McDONALD: Decolonizing English: The Caribbean Counter-Thrust F. DARROCH: Re-Reading the Religious Bodies of Postcolonial Literature M. MEYER: An African's Trouble with His Masters' Voices P. TOURNAY: Home, Hybridity and (post)colonial Discourse in Caryl Phillips's A State of Independence ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WRITING IN AFRICA N.M. KAMWANGAMALU: When 2+9=1: English and the Politics of Language Planning in a Multilingual Society: South Africa KEMBO-SURE: The Democratization of Language Policy: A Cultural-Linguistic Analysis of the Status of English in Kenya S.T.A. MAFU: Postcolonial Language Planning in Tanzania: What Are the Difficulties and What is the Way Out? E. CHIAVETTA: 'Hear from my own lips': The Language of Women's Autobiographies D. DEUBER & P. OLOKO: Linguistic and Literary Development of Nigerian Pidgin: The Contribution of Radio Drama H. FRANK: 'That's all out of shape': Language and Racism in South African Drama H. RAMSEY-KURZ: Beyond the Domain of Literacy: The Illiterate Other in The Heart of the Matter, Things Fall Apart and Waiting for the Barbarians R. SAMIN: 'The nuisance one learns to put up with': English as a Linguistic Compromise in Es'kia Mphahlele's Fiction THE POLITICS OF ENGLISH ON THE ASIAN SUBCONTINENT D.C.R.A. GOONETILLEKE: The Interface of Language, Literature and Politics in Sri Lanka: A Paradigm for Ex-Colonies of Britain P. PAUL: The Master's Language and its Indian Uses R. WIJESINHA: Bringing Back the Bathwater: New Initiatives in English Policy in Sri Lanka V. ALEXANDER: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag and Yasmine Gooneratne's A Change of Skies Y. TAN: Imperial Pretensions and The Pleasures of Conquest C. VOGT-WILLIAM: 'Language is the skin of my thought': Language Relations in Ancient Promises and The God of Small Things NEW ZEALAND, CANADA, THE PHILIPPINES: ENGLISH IN MULTILINGUAL CONSTELLATIONS AROUND THE PACIFIC RIM P.H. MARSDEN: From 'carefully modulated murmur' to 'not a place for sooks': New Zealand Ways of Writing English M. KEOWN: Maori or English? The Politics of Language in Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes J. HOLMES, M. STUBBE & M. MARRA: Language, Humour and Ethnic Identity Marking in New Zealand English E. HASEBE-LUDT: Metissage and Memory: The Politics of Literacy Education in Canadian Curriculum and Classrooms K. KNOPF: 'Joseph you know him he don trus dah Anglais' Or: English as Postcolonial Language in Canadian Indigenous Films D. MANARPAAC: 'When I was a child I spake as a child': Reflecting on the Limits of a Nationalist Language Policy CONTRIBUTORS