Performing English with a Postcolonial Accent
Clemente, A. / Higgins, M. J.
The postcolonial condition represents the political, social and cultural realities of what constitutes the everyday lives of the actors entangled in the "whirlwind of globalisation". How they learn, appropriate, modify, and redefine their use of English as a series of multilingual social and cultural performances' is what is meant by a postcolonial accent.
With the dominant role that English plays in the globalised political economy of the co...