English and the Discourses of Colonialism opens with the British departure from Hong Kong
marking the end of British colonialism. Yet Alastair Pennycook argues that this dramatic exit …

A much-cited and highly influential text by Alastair Pennycook, one of the world authorities in
sociolinguistics, The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language explores the …

The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced
an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has …

In Indian Angles, Mary Ellis Gibson provides a new historical approach to Indian English
literature. Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian …

The complex politics of English as a world language provides the backdrop both for
linguistic studies of varieties of English around the world and for postcolonial literary …

Abstract English has become the dominant global language of communication, business,
aviation, entertainment, diplomacy and the intemet. Govemments as well as some scholars …

Having striven for many years to come to grips with some of the hard questions that need to
be asked about the role of English in the world–the cultural politics of English as an …

This volume brings together key writings since the 1992 publication of Linguistic Imperialism–
Robert Phillipson's controversial benchmark volume, which triggered a major re-thinking of …

Much has been written about the coloniality of the English language. Now more than ever,
one senses among a section of the applied linguistics community a critical awareness of the …

The'postcolonial'criticism of the 1980s and 1990s-which both continues and inverts
the'Commonwealth'criticism inaugurated in the 1960s-has promoted a binarized …