Alastair Pennycook

English and the Discourses of Colonialism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Is the English language neutral, global and open to everyone? By examining colonial language policies in India, Malaysia and Hong Kong, this book shows how various policies emerged which both reflected and produced colonial disourses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134684076
• Artikelnr.: 42669903

Autorenporträt

Pennycook, Alastair

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
1. English and the cultural constructs of colonialism
2. The cultural constructs of colonialism
3. Anglicism
Orientalism and colonial language policy
4. Hong Kong: Opium
riots
English and Chinese
5. Images of the Self: our marvellous tongue
6. Images of the Other: China and cultural fixity
7. English
continuity and counterdiscourse
Notes
Bibliography
Index