An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. The consequences of
English's 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. The
idea of World Englishes encourages us to re-imagine our
understanding of the language. The difference between error and
innovation can no longer be decided through assumptions about the
language 'ownership'. In fact, the language is beginning to be a
medium of the expression of identity for more and more people in
very different contexts. This book puts examples from World
Englishes into dialogue with postcolonial studies, in the belief
that while postcolonial studies has obviously had much to say about
English, it has either directly concerned or been influenced by
English literary 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.
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