World English: Study of its development

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This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, combining that with a study of its language change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and change of English, putting forward a new framework of language spread and change.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 1 Images of World English: Writing English as an International Language
• 2 2 The Representation of the Social in a Social Science: Methodology in Linguistics
• 3 3 Ideological and Economic Crosscurrents of Empire
• 4 4 The Contested Terrain of Colonial Language Policy
• 5 5 Access Denied: Containing the Spread of English
• 6 6 The Becoming of a World Language
• 7 7 Macroacquisition: Bilingual Speech Communities and Language Change
• 8 8 The Macroacquisition of English: New Representations in the Language
• 9 9 (The) World (of) English: Englishes in Convergence
• 10 10 Decentering English Applied Linguistics