Decolonizing English

The Caribbean Counter-Thrust

In: The Politics of English as a World Language
Author:
Hazel Simmons-McDonald University of the West Indies at Cave Hill

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179–201
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401200929_014

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Abstract

Starting from the observation that English is the language in which dominant discourses are formulated in most parts of the world today, the essay explores which implications this may have for the Caribbean, a region in which several varieties of English coexist and in which there are political and educational debates about the place of these varieties and their functions in the development of Caribbean peoples. Using both literary and socio-linguistic evidence, changing attitudes to varieties of English are explored, and perspectives for a critical language pedagogy for the region are developed.

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The Politics of English as a World Language

New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies

Series:  ASNEL Papers, Volume: 65/7 and  Cross/Cultures, Volume: 65/7
Cover The Politics of English as a World Language
E-Book ISBN:
9789401200929
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2003
Front Matter
Beyond Homogeny and Heterogeny
English for the Globe, or Only for Globe-Trotters?
Linguistic Diversity and Biodiversity
English as the Supranational Language of Human Rights?
English as an Exotic Language
G.lobal Languages O.ppress B.ut A.re L.iberating, Too
Proregression and Dynamic Stasis
Towards Global Diglossia?
The Recording of Vocabulary from the Major Varieties of English in the Oxford English Dictionary
English as a Lingua Franca and the Politics of Property
Language Advocacy and ‘Conquest’ Diglossia in the ‘Anglophone’ Caribbean
Re-Reading the Religious Bodies of Postcolonial Literature
An African’s Trouble with His Masters’ Voices
Home, Hybridity and (Post) colonial Discourse in Caryl Phillips’s A State of Independence
When 2+9=1: English and the Politics of Language Planning in a Multilingual Society South Africa
The Democratization of Language Policy
Postcolonial Language Planning in Tanzania
“Hear from my own lips”
Linguistic and Literary Development of Nigerian Pidgin
“That’s all out of shape”
Beyond the Domain of Literacy
“The nuisance one learns to put up with”
The Interface of Language, Literature and Politics in Sri Lanka
The Master’s Language and Its Indian Uses
Bringing Back the Bathwater
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Amit Chaudhuri’s Afternoon Raag and Yasmine Gooneratne’s A Change of Skies
Imperial Pretensions and The Pleasures of Conquest
“Language is the skin of my thought”
From “carefully modulated murmur” to “not a place for sooks”
Maori or English? The Politics of Language in Patricia Grace’s Baby No-Eyes
Language, Humour and Ethnic Identity Marking in New Zealand English
Métissage and Memory
“Joseph you know him he don trus dah Anglais”
“When I was a child I spake as a child”
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