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v. 1 ISBN 9781441107596
Description
Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews.
The first volume of these Collected Works brings together a number of Kachru's key papers from 1976 to 1990, covering Kachru's early work in the development of World Englishes as a concept and his exploration of non-native varieties of English.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Models of English for the third world: white man's linguistic burden or language pragmatics (1976)
2. The new Englishes and old dictionaries: directions in lexicographical research on non-native varieties of English (1980)
3. The pragmatics of non-native varieties of English (1981)
4. Meaning in deviation: toward understanding non-native English texts (1982)
5. Regional norms for English (1984)
6. The alchemy of English: social and functional power of non-native varieties (1984)
7. The power and politics of English (1986)
8. Non-native literatures in English as a resource for language teaching (1986)
9. The past and prejudice: toward de-mythologizing the English Canon (1987)
10. ESP and non-native varieties of English: toward a shift in paradigm (1988)
11. The spread of English and sacred linguistic cows (1988)
Bibliography
Index
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v. 3 ISBN 9781441116031
Description
Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews.
The third volume of these Collected Works details Kachru's key studies from the 19070s to 1990s in the areas of linguistics, multilingualism and language contact, including some of his work on language in India and South Asia.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Editor's Introduction
1. Linguistic schizophrenia and language census: a note on the Indian situation (1977)
2. Toward structuring code-mixing: an Indian perspective (1978)
3. Code-mixing as a communicative strategy in India (1978)
4. Bilingualism (1981)
5. The bilingual's linguistic repertoire (1982)
6. Language policy in South Asia (1982)
7. Institutionalized second-language varieties (1985)
8. Standards, codification and sociolinguistic realism: the English language in the outer circle (1985)
9. Current issues in bilingualism: an update of directions in research (1985)
10. The bilingual's creativity (1986)
11. Cultural contact and literary creativity in a multilingual society (1992)
12. Multilingualism and multiculturalism (1992)
13. Speech community (1994/1998)
Bibliography
Index
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v. 2 ISBN 9781441194411
Description
Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews.
The second volume of these Collected Works contains selections of some of Kachru's most important work in the field of World Englishes from the years between the 1992 and 2001.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. The Second Diaspora of English (1992)
2. New Englishes (1994)
3. The Speaking Tree: a Medium of Plural Canons (1995)
4. Transcultural creativity in World Englishes and literary Canons (1995)
5. World Englishes (1996)
6. The Paradigms of Marginality (1996)
7. English as Lingua Franca (1996)
8. World Englishes 2000: Resources for research and teaching (1997)
9. World Englishes and culture wars (2001)
Bibliography
Index
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