"Unequal Englishes challenges the widely held assumption that languages and linguistic varieties are equal, exploring the various ways we can understand, examine and transform inequalities of Englishes. Written by engaging and well-known scholars of language, education and politics, the chapters in the volume offer a wide range of perspectives on the complex but interwoven relationships between inequalities and Englishes, with an expansive geopolitical trajectory which includes the Philippines, Cuba, China, Canada, India, Malaysia, the United States, Singapore and South Korea. Their specific social and ideological contexts of analyses are wide-ranging, including textbooks and classrooms; teachers, would-be teachers and students; call centers; linguistic landscapes; stories, narratives and jokes. The volume unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as one way to understand the global spread of English today"--
Unequal Englishes challenges the widely held assumption that languages and linguistic varieties are equal, and explores the various ways we can understand, examine and transform inequalities of Englishes. Written by engaging and well-known scholars of language, education and politics, the chapters in the volume offer a wide range of perspectives on the complex but interwoven relationships between inequalities and Englishes, with an expansive geopolitical trajectory which includes the Philippines, Cuba, China, Canada, India, Malaysia, the United States, Singapore and South Korea. Their specific social and ideological contexts of analyses are wide-ranging, including textbooks and classrooms; teachers, would-be teachers and students; call centers; linguistic landscapes; stories, narratives and jokes. The volume mobilizes the notion of unequal Englishes as one way to understand the global spread of English today.
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The volume engages its readers to consider and weigh the challenges faced by a wide range of users of English in their everyday lives, in their workplaces, education or social lives. The editors have succeeded in making the volume cohesive and well-balanced, having aptly divided the contributions into 4 subthemes that interconnect subtly with the title of the volume. (Paula Prescod, The Linguist List, linguistlist.org, June, 2016)
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| Foreword |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| Introduction: From World Englishes to Unequal Englishes |
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Part I Approaches to Unequal Englishes |
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1 Inequalities of Englishes, English Speakers, and Languages: A Critical Perspective on Pluralist Approaches to English |
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2 Unequal Englishes, the Native Speaker, and Decolonization in TESOL |
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3 Structures of Feeling in Unequal Englishes |
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4 Global English and Inequality: The Contested Ground of Linguistic Power |
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Part II Englishes in Nexuses of Power and Inequality |
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5 `Just an Old Joke': Chinglish, Narrative, and Linguistic Inequality in the Chinese English Classroom |
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6 English in Japan: Indecisions, Inequalities, and Practices of Relocalization |
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7 Performing Gayness and English in an Offshore Call Center Industry |
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Part III Englishes in Changing Multilingual Spaces |
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8 Earning Capital in Hawai'i's Linguistic Landscape |
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9 Glocalization and the Spread of Unequal Englishes: Vernacular Signs in the Center of Beijing |
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10 Singlish Strikes Back in Singapore |
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Catherine Chua Siew Kheng |
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Part IV Englishes in Unequal Learning Spaces |
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11 Contesting the Raj's `Divide and Rule' Policies: Linguistic Apartheid, Unequal Englishes, and the Postcolonial Framework |
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12 Unequal Englishes in Imagined Intercultural Interactions |
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13 Preparing Teachers for `Unequal Englishes': The D-TEIL Experience in Cuba |
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Siew Kheng Catherine Chua, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Eric Henry, Carleton University, Canada Christina Higgins, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA Peter Ives, University of Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada Ryuko Kubota, The University of British Columbia, Canada Lin Pan, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Ian Martin, Glendon College, York University, Canada Brian Morgan, Glendon College, York University, Canada Phan Le Ha, University of Hawai'i at M?noa, USA Vaidehi Ramanathan, University of California at Davis, USA Rani Rubdy, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Joseph Sung-Yul Park, National University of Singapore Aileen O. Salonga, University of the Philippines in Diliman, Philippines Glenn Toh, Tamagawa University, Japan Ruanni Tupas, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
