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When The Other Tongue appeared in 1982, it was called "required reading for all those concerned with English teaching in non-native situations, from the classroom teacher to the policy planner", Jowhn Platt, English World-Wide) and "an extremely useful and stimulating collection" (William C. Ritchie, Language). It introduced refreshingly new perspectives for understanding the spread and functions of English around the world. This dramatically ...

This collection of specially commissioned articles focuses on selected critical dimensions and case studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied, and pedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around the world. The Handbook represents the cross-cultural and international contextualization of the English language, and the contributions articulate the visions of scholars from major varieties of world Englishes African, Asian, Euro...

These Collected Works encompasses the output of Professor Braj Kachru, one of the pioneers of world Englishes as a concept.

Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more th...

The second volume of these collected works contains selections of some of Kachru's most important work in the field of World Englishes from the years between the 1992 and 2001.

Discusses the national security state that emerged in the first decade of the Cold War.

The book is like a fresh breeze blowing into a dingy, staid, and stale place... It is a book that everyone interested in the English language should read." -- Vimala R. Rao, Literary Criterion

South Asia is a rich and fascinating linguistic area, its many hundreds of languages from four major language families representing the distinctions of caste, class, profession, religion, and region. This comprehensive new volume presents an overview of the language situation in this vast subcontinent in a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context. An invaluable resource, it comprises authoritative contributions from leading internati...

This book complements and advances the traditional scholarship on the history of English. It is about the role of different forms of colonization and related ideologies in its diversification. It also discusses the consequences of its appropriation by practitioners of different cultures and its indigenization into their own language.

South Asia is a rich and fascinating linguistic area, its many hundreds of languages from four major language families representing the distinctions of caste, class, profession, religion, and region. This comprehensive new volume presents an overview of the language situation in this vast subcontinent in a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context. An invaluable resource, it comprises authoritative contributions from leading internati...

Providing useful reading for students and researchers of world Englishes in the Asian context, this study of the users and uses of English in Asia, its acculturation, nativization and innovative dimension of Asian creativity contextualizes a variety of theoretical, applied and ideological issues with refreshing interpretations and re-evaluations.

Providing useful reading for students and researchers of world Englishes in the Asian context, this study of the users and uses of English in Asia, its acculturation, nativization and innovative dimension of Asian creativity contextualizes a variety of theoretical, applied and ideological issues with refreshing interpretations and re-evaluations.