Post-Imperial English : : Status Change in Former British and American Colonies, 1940-1990 / / ed. by Alma Rubal-Lopez, Andrew W. Conrad.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Al-Abed Al-Haq, Fawwaz,; Ammon, Ulrich,; Bamgbose, Ayo,; Batibo, Herman,; Bobda, Augustin Simo,; Chumbow, Beban Sammy,; Cifuentes, Bárbara,; Conrad, Andrew W.,; Corona, Dolores,; Dua, Hans Raj,; Fernando, Chitra,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; Flores, José A.,; García, Ofelia,; Gonzalez, Andrew,; Hidalgo, Margarita,; Mazrui, Alamin M.,; Mazrui, Ali A.,; McCormick, Kay,; McLean, Daryl,; Oladejo, James,; Omar, Asmah Haji,; Ramírez-González, Carlos M.,; Rubal-Lopez, Alma,; Sibayan, Bonifacio P.,; Smadi, Oqlah,; Spolsky, Bernard,; Tickoo, Makhan L.,; Torres-González, Roamé,; Veltman, Calvin,; Wagi’alla, Anwar,; Yahya-Othman, Saida,
• HerausgeberIn: Conrad, Andrew W.,; Rubal-Lopez, Alma,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 72
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (654 p.) :; Num. figs. and maps

Table of Contents

• I-VI
• Contents
• GENERAL BACKGROUND ISSUES
• Introduction: Some empirical and theoretical issues
• The international role of English: The state of the discussion
• The ongoing spread of English: A comparative analysis of former Anglo-American colonies with non-colonies
• THE AMERICAN SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
• English in Cuba: From the imperial design to the imperative need
• The position of English in Mexico: 1940–1993
• Post-imperial English in the Philippines
• English under U.S. sovereignty: Ninety-five years of change of the status of English in Puerto Rico
• The English language in Quebec 1940–1990
• THE EUROPEAN UNION
• The European Union (EU – formerly European Community): Status change of English during the last fifty years
• THE BRITISH SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
• A tale of two Englishes: The imperial language in post-colonial Kenya and Uganda
• English in South Africa 1940–1996
• English in Sudan
• Post-imperial English in Nigeria 1940–1990
• The swinging pendulum: English in Tanzania 1940–1990
• The life-cycle of post-imperial English in Cameroon
• Fifty years of English in Singapore: All gains, (a) few losses?
• The status of English in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) from 1940–1990
• The post-imperial status of English in Sri Lanka 1940–1990: From first to second language
• Post-imperial English in Malaysia
• English in Israel after independence
• The spread of English in India: Politics of language conflict and language power
• English in Papua New Guinea
• CONCLUSIONS
• Summary and interpretation: Post-imperial English 1940–1990
• Subject index