Dehegemonizing Language Standards : Learning from (Post) Colonial Englishes about English

Name: Dehegemonizing Language Standards
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9780333616345
Price: 16200 KES
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ISBN: 9780333616345

by A. Parakrama

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Format Hardback

Book Series Language, Discourse, Society

ISBN-10 0333616340

ISBN-13 9780333616345

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 6th, 1995

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 468 grams

Dimensions 22.00 x 14.80 x 3.00 cms

Product Classification: Germanic and Scandinavian languages Linguistics Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)Language teaching and learning

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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.

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