Unequal Englishes The Politics of Englishes Today

by Tupas, Ruanni

• ISBN13: 9781137461216
• ISBN10: 1137461217
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781137461223
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-06-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Unequal Englishes challenges the widely held assumption that languages and linguistic varieties are equal, and explores the various ways we can understand, examine and transform inequalities of Englishes. Written by engaging and well-known scholars of language, education and politics, the chapters in the volume offer a wide range of perspectives on the complex but interwoven relationships between inequalities and Englishes, with an expansive geopolitical trajectory which includes the Philippines, Cuba, China, Canada, India, Malaysia, the United States, Singapore and South Korea. Their specific social and ideological contexts of analyses are wide-ranging, including textbooks and classrooms; teachers, would-be teachers and students; call centers; linguistic landscapes; stories, narratives and jokes. The volume mobilizes the notion of unequal Englishes as one way to understand the global spread of English today.

Author Biography

Ruanni Tupas is Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. His publications include Second Language Teaching (2004), (Re)making Society: The Politics of Language, Discourse and Identity in the Philippines (edited, 2008) and Language Education and Nation-Building: Assimilation and Shift in Southeast Asia (co-edited, 2014).

Table of Contents

Foreword; Arjuna Parakrama
Introduction: From World Englishes to Unequal Englishes; Ruanni Tupas and Rani Rubdy
PART I: APPROACHES TO UNEQUAL ENGLISHES
1. Inequalities of Englishes, English Speakers, and Languages: A Critical Perspective of Pluralist Approaches to English; Ryuko Kubota
2. Unequal Englishes, the Native Speaker, and Decolonization in TESOL; Rani Rubdy
3. Structures of Feeling in Unequal Englishes; Joseph Sung-Yul Park
4. Global English and Inequality: The Contested Ground of Linguistic Power; Peter Ives
PART II: ENGLISHES IN NEXUSES OF POWER AND INEQUALITY
5. 'Just an Old Joke': Chinglish, Narrative and Linguistic Inequality in the Chinese English Classroom; Eric S. Henry
6. English in Japan: Indecisions, Inequalities and Practices of Relocalization; Glenn Toh
7. Performing Gayness and English in an Offshore Call Center Industry; Aileen O. Salonga
PART III: ENGLISHES IN CHANGING MULTILINGUAL SPACES
8. Earning Capital in Hawai'i's Linguistic Landscape; Christina HigginS
9. Glocalization and the Spread of Unequal Englishes: Vernacular Signs in the Centre of Beijing; Lin Pan
10. Singlish Strikes Back in Singapore; Chua, Siew Kheng Catherine
PART IV: ENGLISHES IN UNEQUAL LEARNING SPACES
11. Contesting the Raj's 'Divide and Rule' Policies: Linguistic Apartheid, Unequal Englishes, and the Postcolonial Framework; Vaidehi Ramanathan
12. Unequal Englishes in Imagined Intercultural Interactions; Phan Le Ha
13. Preparing Teachers for 'Unequal Englishes': The D-TEIL Experience in Cuba; Ian Martin and Brian Morgan