English and the Discourses of Colonialism.
Title:
English and the Discourses of Colonialism.
Author:
Pennycook, Alastair.
ISBN:
9780203006344
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (398 pages)
Series:
The Politics of Language
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 English and the Cultural Constructs of Colonialism -- Why English? -- Why Colonialism? -- English Language Teaching and Colonialism -- Personal Histories, Colonialism and English -- Discourse, History and the Present -- Outline -- 2 The Cultural Constructs of Colonialism -- Colonialism, Imperialism and Culture -- Colonial Dichotomies -- Conclusion -- 3 Anglicism, Orientalism and Colonial Language Policy -- Anglicism and Orientalism -- Towards a Policy of Pragmatic Vernacularism -- Conclusion -- 4 Hong Kong -- Playing Safe: Language Policy in Malaya -- Hong Kong: Opium, Riots and Myths -- Discourses of Hong Kong Education -- Conclusions: Language Policies and Colonial Legacies -- 5 Images of the Self -- Our Marvellous Tongue -- Teaching Our Marvellous Tongue to Speakers of Other Languages -- 6 Images of the Other -- Orientalist Discourses -- Conclusion: Eltand Cultural Fixity -- 7 English, Continuity and Counterdiscourse -- Colonial Continuities -- Available Discourses and Counterdiscourses -- Remaking English in Australia -- Notes -- 1 English and the Cultural Constructs of Colonialism -- 2 The Cultural Constructs of Colonialism -- 4 Hong Kong: Opium, Riots, English and Chinese -- 5 Images of the Self: Our Marvellous Tongue -- 7 English, Continuity and Counterdiscourse -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
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 masks the crucial issue that the traces left by colonialism run deep. This challenging and provocative book looks particularly at English, English language teaching, and colonialism. It reveals how the practice of colonialism permeated the cultures and discourses of both the colonial and colonized nations, the effects of which are still evident today. Pennycook explores the extent to which English is, as commonly assumed, a language of neutrality and global communication, and to what extent it is, by contrast, a language laden with meanings and still weighed down with colonial discourses that have come to adhere to it. Travel writing, newspaper articles and popular books on English, are all referred to, as well as personal experiences and interviews with learners of English in India, Malaysia, China and Australia. Pennycook concludes by appealing to postcolonial writing, to create a politics of opposition and dislodge the discourses of colonialism from English.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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