De-hegemonizing Language Standards: Learning from (Post)Colonial Englishes About English (Language, Discourse, Society) - Softcover

Parakrama, Arjuna

 
9780333616352: De-hegemonizing Language Standards: Learning from (Post)Colonial Englishes About English (Language, Discourse, Society)
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ISBN 10: 0333616359 ISBN 13: 9780333616352
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995

Synopsis

This study establishes the discriminatory and elitist nature of standard languages and standardization itself, considering as counter-example the case of Sri Lankan English as symptomatic of the other or post-colonial Englishes. On the basis of this understanding of the standard, while at the same time accepting the necessity of standards, however attenuated, the writer argues for the active broadening of the standard to include the greatest variety possible - privileging meaning over other rules - and holds that this would in fact work towards extending the bounds of linguistic tolerance.

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ARJUNA PARAKRAMA

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0333616359
ISBN 13 
9780333616352
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256

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