Where WE stands: approaches, issues, and debate in world Englishes

Bolton, Kingsley

doi:10.1111/j.0883-2919.2005.00388.x

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“…To be sure, disciplines are the result of the individual efforts of teachers, scholars, students, and policymakers; as such, they have nuances and complexities that result in trends but not always unified views or actions. Individuals operating underneath broad designations have over the last few decades argued for the formal legitimacy of many Englishes (Kachru, 1983, and after), described the role of English and different parts of the world (Berns, 1988;Nino-Murcia, 2003;Petzold, 2000), resisted linguistic imperialism (Canagarajah, 1999), discussed peace linguistics (Gomes de Matos & Friedrich, 2009), and highlighted the ways in which world Englishes is political (Bolton, 2005), just to cite a few examples. So, the space has Downloaded by [UQ Library] at 05:49 02 November 2014 been created, across applied linguistics areas, for critical issues to flourish.…”

Section: What Critical Applied Linguists Do: Given What We Know Of Lamentioning

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“…Furthermore, we believe, contrary to Pennycook, that sociolinguistics can find a balance between what he calls a liberal view and a critical view; for us, it is possible to exist within the tension generated by relative agency in a world full of sociopolitical forces. Downloaded by [UQ Library] at 05:49 02 November 2014 Bolton (2005) takes issue with the charge that world Englishes is not political or not political enough as argued in more detail in Pennycook (2003). Bolton contends:…”

Section: What Critical Applied Linguists Do: Given What We Know Of Lamentioning

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“…It is difficult not to conclude that, although Pennycook strives to measure up to the discursive requirements of his own proposal (always be skeptical), this project is crucially undermined by his from-scratch invention of an applied linguistics, which makes magnified claims about its socially transformative power. Bolton (2005) takes issue with this as well, noting that "it is generally unclear exactly what activities might qualify as political engagement, and what this might involve in real terms" (p. 76). Although we may wish to appropriate ideas from CAL to our different realities and realms of influence, we seem unable to find concrete examples of how that might happen; and, as authors have pointed out elsewhere (Matsuda & Friedrich, 2011), it can be very frustrating for teachers to want to change but not be offered practical solutions and approaches to such transformation.…”

Section: What Critical Applied Linguists Do: Given What We Know Of Lamentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…The term World Englishes originated in the two conferences on English as a world language that took place in 1978 at the East-West Center in Hawaii and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Braj Kachru and Larry Smith took a leadership role in both conferences (Bolton, 2006;Kachru, 1992;Smith, 1981). Prior to the use of the term, the earlier conceptualization of World Englishes refers to the recognition of a unique linguistic phenomenon and particularly to the changing landscape of the post 1940s (Kachru, 1997b).…”

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“…These include global English (es), international English (es), new English (es), varieties of English, English as an international language, English as a global language, and so on. These terms have been used almost interchangeably, with minimal varying connotations (Bolton, 2004(Bolton, , 2005Schneider, 2003). In this paper, the term is associated with the Kachruvian studies (Bhatt, 2001b;Bolton, 2005) which have been characterized by the importance of inclusivity and pluricentricity in approaches to language use worldwide.…”

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The marginalized positions of Thai professional writers on the global hegemony of English

Buripakdi

2012

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This qualitative study investigated the positions of the Thai professional writers towards Thai English. Data was collected from in-depth interviews of 20 Thai bilingual writers. The findings revealed that most of the writers had different ways to distant themselves from Thai English. The majority of the participants expressed a marginalized view toward their English. Their attitudes were greatly influenced by the hegemonic Standard English. Evidently, Thai perceptions of the English language conformed to a colonial, hierarchical standpoint which privileged the types of English spoken and written within the U.S. and Great Britain and denigrated spoken and written Thai English. The study not only reflected the reality of World Englishes but also addressed political aspect of language use related with identity, power, and hierarchical discourse. It clearly indicated the political nature of teaching English and called for a reconsideration of teaching practices in countries where English is not the native language.

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Varieties of World Englishes

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The Handbook of World Englishes

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situational DISTINCTIVENESS of the LANGUAGE may be easily stated, as in many regional and occupational varieties (e.g., London English, religious English); in other cases, as in studies of social class, the varieties are more difficult to define, involving the intersection of several variables (e.g., sex, age, occupation). Several classifications of language varieties have been proposed, involving such terms as DIALECT, REGISTER, MEDIUM and FIELD. (Crystal, 1997: 408) A neutral term used to refer to any kind of language-a dialect, accent, sociolect,style or register -that a linguist happens to want to discuss as a separate entity for some particular purpose. Such a variety can be very general, such as "American English," or very specific, such as "the lower working-class dialect of the Lower East Side of New York City." (Trudgill, 2003: 139-40) We can use "variety" to mean a language, a dialect, an idiolect or an accent; it is a term which encompasses all of these. The term "variety" is an academic term used for any kind of language production, whether we are viewing it as being determined by region, by gender, by social class, by age or by our own inimitable individual characteristics. (Bauer, 2003: 4) Randolph Quirk in The Use of English (1962), was one of the first in the contemporary period to discuss "varieties" of English with reference to the description of English "standards" worldwide. In this early work, Quirk made a plea for linguistic tolerance, arguing that: English is not the prerogative or "possession" of the English ... Acknowledging this must-as a corollary involve our questioning the propriety of claiming that the English of one area is more "correct" than the English of another. Certainly, we must realise that there is no single "correct" English, and no single standard of correctness.

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Where WE stands: approaches, issues, and debate in world Englishes

Cited by 111 publications

References 36 publications

Reading Pennycook Critically 10 Years Later: A Group's Reflections On and Questions About Critical Applied Linguistics

Reading Pennycook Critically 10 Years Later: A Group's Reflections On and Questions About Critical Applied Linguistics

The marginalized positions of Thai professional writers on the global hegemony of English

Varieties of World Englishes

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