Unequal Englishes The Politics of Englishes Today [Hardcover]

This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike many studies on the pluralization of English, the volume assumes that inequalities and Englishes are inextricably linked and must be understood and theorized together.Foreword; Arjuna Parakrama Introduction: From World Englishes to Unequal Englishes; Ruanni Tupas and Rani Rubdy PART I: APPROACHES TO UNEQUAL ENGLISHES 1. Inequalities of Englishes, English Speakers, and Languages: A Critical Perspective of Pluralist Approaches to English; Ryuko Kubota 2. Unequal Englishes, the Native Speaker, and Decolonization in TESOL; Rani Rubdy 3. Structures of Feeling in Unequal Englishes; Joseph Sung-Yul Park 4. Global English and Inequality: The Contested Ground of Linguistic Power; Peter Ives PART II: ENGLISHES IN NEXUSES OF POWER AND INEQUALITY 5. 'Just an Old Joke': Chinglish, Narrative and Linguistic Inequality in the Chinese English Classroom; Eric S. Henry 6. English in Japan: Indecisions, Inequalities and Practices of Relocalization; Glenn Toh 7. Performing Gayness and English in an Offshore Call Center Industry; Aileen O. Salonga PART III: ENGLISHES IN CHANGING MULTILINGUAL SPACES 8. Earning Capital in Hawai'i's Linguistic Landscape; Christina HigginS 9. Glocalization and the Spread of Unequal Englishes: Vernacular Signs in the Centre of Beijing; Lin Pan 10. Singlish Strikes Back in Singapore; Chua, Siew Kheng Catherine PART IV: ENGLISHES IN UNEQUAL LEARNING SPACES 11. Contesting the Raj's 'Divide and Rule' Policies: Linguistic Apartheid, Unequal Englishes, and the Postcolonial Framework; Vaidehi Ramanathan 12. Unequal Englishes in Imagined Intercultural Interactions; Phan Le Ha 13. Preparing Teachers for 'Unequal Englishes': The D-TEIL Experience in Cuba; Ian Martin and Brian Morgan

The volume engages its readers to consider and weigh the challenges faced by a wide range of users of English in their everyday lives, in their workplaces, educatiol³$