Cultures, Contexts, and World Englishes

by: Yamuna Kachru - Larry E. Smith

Cultures, Contexts, and World Englishes
Author: Yamuna Kachru, Larry E. Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

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Format: Electronic book text

Publication date: 08 May 2008

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ISBN: 1135704643 ISBN 13: 9781135704643

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This volume aims to familiarize readers with the varieties of world Englishes used across cultures and to create awareness of some of the linguistic and socially relevant contexts and functions that have given rise to them. It emphasizes that effective communication among users of different Englishes requires awareness of the varieties in use and their cultural, social, and ideational functions. Cultures, Contexts and World Englishes: demonstrates the rich results of integrating theory, methodology and application features critical and detailed discussion of the sociolinguistics of English in the globalized world gives equal emphasis to grammar and pragmatics of variation and to uses of Englishes in spoken and written modes in major English-using regions of the world. Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading and challenging discussion questions and appropriate research projects designed to enhance the usefulness of this volume in courses such as world Englishes, English in the Global Context, Sociolinguistics, Critical Applied Linguistics, Language Contact and Convergence, Ethnography of Communication, and Crosscultural Communication. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Routledge

Pages: 256

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Age recommended: General/trade

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC22) 427.009 Library of Congress Subject: 2007045123 Sociolinguistics

Departments: Language & linguistics;

Record updated at: 15 March, 2013 time: 16:39

Summary Cultures, Contexts, and World Englishes Selected Contents: Introduction. Part 1: Verbal Interaction and Intelligibility Part 2: Sound, Sentence, and Word Part 3: Conversational and Writing Styles Conclusion. References. Index: Author Index: Subject Top page

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