World Englishes at the Grassroots

ISBN-13: 9781474467551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 290 str.

Christiane Meierkord; Edgar W. Schneider

Spis treści

Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; 1: Introduction: English spreading at the grassroots, Christiane Meierkord and Edgar W. Schneider; 2: Grassroots English, learner English, second-language English, English as a lingua franca ... : What’s in a name?, Sarah Buschfeld; Part I: English at the grassroots in former spheres of British interest; 3: The sociolinguistic profile of English at the grassroots level: A comparison of Northern and Western Uganda, Bebwa Isingoma; 4: English language learning trajectories among Zanzibaris working in tourism , Susanne Mohr; 5: Access to English and the Englishes of the disadvantaged - examples from Uganda and South Africa, Christiane Meierkord; 6: Artistic re-creation of grassroots English: Ideologies and structures in English Vinglish, Edgar W. Schneider; Part II: English in trade and work migration; 7: Facets of intercultural communication employed in the conversations of local Arab traders in Bahrain, Anthonia Akhidenor-Bamidele; 8: The value of grassroots English for Bangladeshi migrants to the Middle East, Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury and Elizabeth J. Erling; 9: Grassroots diffusion of English in a ‘blue-collar’ workplace: the case of a multilingual cleaning company in New Jersey, USA, Kellie Gonçalves; Part III: English in forced migration; 10: Language use among Syrian refugees in Germany, Guyanne Wilson; 11: Uprooted speakers’ grassroots English: Metalinguistic perspectives of asylum seekers in Germany, Axel Bohmann; 12: Onward migration from Italy to the UK: reshaped linguistic repertoires and the role of English, Francesco Goglia; Index