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Název:		World Englishes : critical concepts in linguistics
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Rok vydání:		2006
Identifikátory:		9780415315111

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Anotace:	The study of World Englishes has seen a revolutionary shift during the last twenty years. This collection reprints essential scholarship from the full range of differing academic traditions and current theoretical approaches to the field. It provides students and researchers with instant access to the key articles and theories on the subject, and is completed by a new introduction from the editors. Today the total number of "first language speakers" of English is around 350 million, while there are an estimated 1 billion people who speak the language as a "second" or "foreign" language. English is extensively used as an additional language in over eighty nations from the Caribbean to Africa and Asia and is used for a wide range of functions alongside national languages such as Swahili, Hindi and Filipino. In countries that were previously colonized by Anglophone powers (such as Nigeria, Kenya, India), English has been retained for a range of official functions in government, law and education. Even in societies where English has traditionally been regarded as a "foreign" language, such as China and Japan, it is rapidly gaining ground as the adopted language of the internationally-minded business and technological elite.
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