Language Contact and the Future of English

ISBN-13: 9780367593629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 188 str.

Ian MacKenzie

Opis

This book reflects on the future of the English language as used by native speakers, speakers of "nativized" New Englishes, and users of English as a lingua franca from a number of different dimensions.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: English Today   2 Imperfect Learning and Multicompetence   3 Purposeful Language Change   4 Will English as a Lingua Franca Impact on Native English?   5 ELF and the Alternatives   6 Academic English, Epistemicide, and Linguistic Relativity   7 Bilingualism, Translation, and Anglicization   8 Conclusion: Language Contact and the Future of English

O autorze

Ian MacKenzie formerly taught translation at the University of Geneva. He is the author of English as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English (2014), Paradigms of Reading: Relevance Theory and Deconstruction (2002), and a number of English language teaching coursebooks.