Post-Imperial English : : Status Change in Former British and American Colonies, 1940-1990 / / ed. by Alma Rubal-Lopez, Andrew W. Conrad.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 |
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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 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (654 p.) :; Num. figs. and maps |
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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