ISBN:
9780415178471
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (252 p)
Series Statement:
The Politics of Language
Series Statement:
The Politics of Language Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version English and the Discourses of Colonialism
DDC:
306.44/9/09171241
Keywords:
Foreign countries
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Foreign countries
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Is the English language neutral, global and open to everyone? By examining colonial language policies in India, Malaysia and Hong Kong, this book shows how various policies emerged which both reflected and produced colonial disourses
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; English and the cultural constructs of colonialism; The cultural constructs of colonialism; Anglicism, Orientalism and colonial language policy; Hong Kong: Opium, riots, English and Chinese; Images of the Self: our marvellous tongue; Images of the Other: China and cultural fixity; English, continuity and counterdiscourse; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
