De-Hegemonizing Language Standards: Learning from (Post) Colonial Englishes about English - Rilegato

Parakrama, A.

 
9780333616345: De-Hegemonizing Language Standards: Learning from (Post) Colonial Englishes about English

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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. On the basis of this understanding of the standard, while at the same time, accepting the necessity of standards, however attenuated, the writer argues for the active broadening of the standard to include the greatest variety possible - privileging 'meaning' over other rules - and holds that this would in fact work towards extending the bounds of linguistic tolerance.

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ARJUNA PARAKRAMA

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9780333616352: De-Hegemonizing Language Standards: Learning from (Post)Colonial Englishes About "English

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ISBN 10:  0333616359 ISBN 13:  9780333616352
Casa editrice: Macmillan Pub Ltd, 1995
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