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

Parakrama, Arjuna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0333616359 ISBN 13 : 9780333616352

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 1995

Synopsis

This study establishes the discriminatory and elitist nature of standard languages and standardization itself, considering as counter-example the case of Sri Lankan English as symptomatic of the other or post-colonial 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333616359
• ISBN 13: 9780333616352
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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