English in the Contact Zone: Change and Stability
English is closely tied to processes of globalization: a language of threat, desire, destruction and opportunity. […] English is a translocal language, a language of fluidity and fixity that moves across, while becoming embedded in, the materiality of localities and social relations. English is bou...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ilcea, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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ILCEA
2020
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | English is closely tied to processes of globalization: a language of threat, desire, destruction and opportunity. […] English is a translocal language, a language of fluidity and fixity that moves across, while becoming embedded in, the materiality of localities and social relations. English is bound up with transcultural flows, a language of imagined communities and refashioning identities. (Pennycook, 2007: 5–6)Alastair Pennycook’s words speak directly to many of the concerns of the papers... |
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