William O Beeman
Language and the Politics of Emotion. Catherine A. Lutz and Lila Abu‐Lughod. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 217 pp. $44.50 (cloth)
Robert Phillipson
This volume brings together key writings since the 1992 publication of Linguistic Imperialism – Robert Phillipson’s controversial benchmark volume, which triggered a major re-thinking of the English teaching profession by connecting the field to wider political and economic forces. Analyzing how the...
Alastair Pennycook
This paper asks what translanguaging could start to look like if it incorporated an expanded version of language and questioned not only to the borders between languages but also the borders between semiotic modes. Developing the idea of spatial repertoires and assemblages, and looking at data from ...
Tobias Bernaisch, Stefan Τh. Gries, Joybrato Mukherjee
The present paper focuses on the modelling of cross-varietal differences and similarities in South Asian English(es) and British English at the level of verb complementation. Specifically, we analyse the dative alternation with GIVE, i.e. the alternation between the double-object construction ( John...
Amy Β. M. Tsui, James W. Tollefson, Sylvia Celedón‐Pattichis, Jonathan Brinkerhoff
Contents: Preface. A.B.M. Tsui, J.W. Tollefson, Language Policy and the Construction of National Cultural Identity. Part I: Globalization and Its Impact on Language Policy, Culture, and Identity. K. Hashimoto, Japan's Language Policy and the Lost Decade. Y. Sungwon, Globalization and Language Policy...
Sebastian Hoffmann, Marianne Hundt, Joybrato Mukherjee
In research into New Englishes, it has been suggested that English has turned into a genuinely pluricentric language in the late 20th century and that various regionally relevant norm-developing centres have emerged that exert an influence on the formation and development of the English language in ...
Syeda Rumnaz Imam
The national language Bangla (Bengali), which is spoken by 98% of the people, is foundational to the nation of Bangladesh as a nation. Language played a crucial role in the struggle for independence from Pakistan which was finally successful in 1971. The medium of instruction in state‐provided basic...
Raqib Chowdhury, Ariful Haq Kabir
Since its relatively recent independence in 1971, a total of seven national Education Commissions were formed, all of which placed various degrees of emphasis on the planning, pedagogy and learning of English in Bangladesh. Although the first Education Commission in 1974 aimed to 'decolonise' the ed...
Shaila Sultana, Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook
The paper explores the use of varied semiotic resources in the linguistic, social and cultural practices of young adults in the context of Bangladesh and Mongolia. Based on a translinguistic analysis (including pre-textual history, contextual relations, sub-textual meaning, intertextual echoes and p...
M. Obaidul Hamid, Iffat Jahan, Monjurul Islam
The use of English as a medium of instruction (MOI) in polities across the world has drawn attention of language policy and planning scholars and researchers. Increasingly, research on MOI policy and practice focuses on how macro-level policies are translated into action by ‘actors’ including teache...
Raqib Chowdhury, Phan Lê Hà
The increasing demand for competent users of English in the era of globalisation has had a significant impact on English Language Teaching (ELT) in Bangladesh. Among a number of changes to improve the quality of ELT, teachers of English have been encouraged, even required, to adopt a communicative l...
M. Obaidul Hamid, Iffat Jahan
This article critically examines the role of language as medium of instruction (MOI) in shaping students’ self-perceptions, worldviews, and identities in a globalizing world. We draw on identity and social positioning theories and on Bourdieu’s concepts of capital and symbolic struggle to frame our ...
Eve Gregory
This paper argues for the need to move beyond the paradigm of parental involvement in reading which presently informs home/school reading programmes for linguistic minority children in the UK. The first part of the paper examines the literature informing the current model showing the marked absence ...
M. Obaidul Hamid, Elizabeth J. Erling
Dieter Haller, Hastings Donnan
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG></o:AllowPNG> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves></w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting></w:TrackFormatting> <w:HyphenationZone>21<...