De-Hegemonizing Language Standards

Learning from (Post) Colonial Englishes about English
1995. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-333-61634-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Language, Discourse, Society

This study first establishes the discriminatroy and elitist nature of standard languages and standardisation itself, considering as counter-example the case of Sri Lankan English as symptomatic of the 'other' or postcolonial Englishes. On the basis of this understanding of the standard, while at the same time, accepting the necessity of standards, however attenuated, the writer argues for the active broadening of the standard to include the greatest variety possible - privileging 'meaning' over other rules - and holds that this would in fact work towards extending the bounds of linguistic tolerance.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parakrama, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note - Acknowledgements - Concrete - The Politics of Standardization and the Special Problematic of (Post) Coloniality - Towards a Broader Standard: The 'Non-Standard' as 'Natural' Resistance - 'Uneducated' (Sri) Lankan English Speech: A Case Study and its Theoretical Implications - Non-Standard Lankan English Writing: New Models and Old Modalities - Attitudes to (Teaching) English: De-Hegemonizing Language in a Situation of Crisis - Bibliography - Index

Über Autor(innen)

ARJUNA PARAKRAMA