Tell your friends about this item:
De-Hegemonizing Language Standards: Learning from (Post) Colonial Englishes about English - Language, Discourse, Society A. Parakrama
De-Hegemonizing Language Standards: Learning from (Post) Colonial Englishes about English - Language, Discourse, Society
A. Parakrama
This study first establishes the discriminatroy and elitist nature of standard languages and standardisation itself, considering as counter-example the case of Sri Lankan English as symptomatic of the 'other' or postcolonial Englishes.
256 pages, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 6, 1995 |
| ISBN13 | 9780333616345 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 148 × 220 × 30 mm · 468 g |