Global English and political economy
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Global English and political economy
（Language, society and political economy / series editor, David Block）
Routledge, 2021
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Summary: "In this book, John O'Regan examines the role of political economy in the worldwide spread of English and traces the origins and development of the dominance of English to the endless accumulation of capital in a capitalist world-system. O'Regan combines Marxist perspectives of capital accumulation with world-systems analysis, international political economy, and studies of imperialism and empire to present an historical account of the 'free riding' of English upon the global capital networks of the capitalist world-system. Relevant disciplinary perspectives on global English are examined in this light, including superdiversity, translanguaging, translingual practice, trans-spatiality, language commodification, World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca. Global English and Political Economy presents an original historical and interdisciplinary interpretation of the global ascent of English, while also raising important theoretical and practical questions for perspectives which suggest that the ti
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- The political economy of English in a capitalist world-system
- English and the political economy of informal empire, 1688-1850
- The political economy of global English, 1850-1914
- The political economy of global English, 1918-1979
- Capital-centric English and the modern world-system, 1979-2008
- The decline of the US world-hegemony
- Superdiverse translingualism, commodification and trans-spatial resistances
- The demise of capitalism and the end of the hegemony of English
