TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pennycook,Alastair
TI  - The cultural politics of English as an international language 
T2  - Routledge linguistics classics
SN  - 9780415788120 (hardback)
U1  - 306.44221 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English language
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - Communication, International
KW  - Intercultural communication
N1  - "Previously published as part of the Language in Social Life Series, edited by Professor Christopher N. Candlin."; "First published by Pearson Education Limited, 1994. Published 2013 by Routledge"--Title page verso; "This edition reissued in Routledge Translation Classics series 2017 by Routledge"--Title page verso
N2  - A much-cited and highly influential text by Alastair Pennycook, one of the world authorities in sociolinguistics, The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language explores the globalization of English by examining its colonial origins, its connections to linguistics and applied linguistics, and its relationships to the global spread of teaching practices. Nine chapters cover a wide range of key topics including:

    international politics

    colonial history

    critical pedagogy

    postcolonial literature.

The book provides a critical understanding of the concept of the ‘worldliness of English’, or the idea that English can never be removed from the social, cultural, economic or political contexts in which it is used.

Reissued with a substantial preface, this Routledge Linguistics Classic remains a landmark text, which led a much-needed critical and ideologically-informed investigation into the burgeoning topic of World Englishes. Key reading for all those working in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and World Englishes.
ER  -