Title: A Comment on the Many Voices in the Discussion of New Englishes
Abstract: The paper first traces the origin of the topic under discussion,then touches upon the main issues concerned and analyses the major schools of thoughts,ideologies and research methodologies,and finally tries to give social,cultural and linguistic explanations to the issues.The paper concludes that English is changing toward both standardization and nativization, so come many varieties of English.The language standard is dynamic rather than static,and the language standardization entails power relations.Different ideas on the varieties of English in the context of globalization are a manifestation of deeper political,economic,social,cultural as well as historical reasons.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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