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Markets of English - Linguistic Capital and Language Policy in a Globalizing World (Paperback)
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Markets of English - Linguistic Capital and Language Policy in a Globalizing World (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
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The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces
oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no
longer be seen as imposed from an imperial center, as English is
now actively adopted and appropriated in local contexts around the
world. This book argues that such conditions call for a new
critique of global English, one that is sensitive to both the
political economic conditions of globalization and speakers' local
practices. Linking Bourdieu's theory of the linguistic market and
his practice-based perspective with recent advances in
sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, this book offers a
fresh new critique of global English. The authors highlight the
material, discursive, and semiotic processes through which the
value of English in the linguistic market is constructed, and
suggest possible policy interventions that may be adopted to
address the problems of global English. Through its serious
engagement with current sociolinguistic theory and insightful
analysis of the multiple dimensions of English in the world, this
book challenges the readers to think about what we need to do to
confront the social inequalities that are perpetuated by the global
spread of English
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