UID:
edocfu_9959245702702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (252 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-68407-X
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0-203-00634-8
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1-134-68408-8
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1-280-18281-4
Serie:
The politics of language
Inhalt:
English and the Discourses of Colonialism opens with the British departure from Hong Kong marking the end of British colonialism. Yet Alastair Pennycook argues that this dramatic exit masks the crucial issue that the traces left by colonialism run deep.This challenging and provocative book looks particularly at English, English language teaching, and colonialism. It reveals how the practice of colonialism permeated the cultures and discourses of both the colonial and colonized nations, the effects of which are still evident today. Pennycook explores the extent to which English is,
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; English and the cultural constructs of colonialism; The cultural constructs of colonialism; Anglicism, Orientalism and colonial language policy; Hong Kong: Opium, riots, English and Chinese; Images of the Self: our marvellous tongue; Images of the Other: China and cultural fixity; English, continuity and counterdiscourse; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-17848-7
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-17847-9
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203006344
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