Overview
In far too many places, the worldwide trade in English-language teaching, testing and publishing has become a self-perpetuating, self-congratulating, neocolonial monster ...a veritable multi-headed Hydra. Too often the English language industry aggressively promotes itself as some sort of ""uplifting"", ""essential"", ""proper"" or even ""better"" means of communication than any other language. Unfortunately, its relentless global outreach is taking place at the direct expense, and the active denigration, of local and regional languages - not to mention individual identities. English Language as Hydra brings together the voices of linguists, literary figures and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging expose of this monstrous Hydra in action on four continents. It provides a showcase of the diverse and powerful impacts that this ever-evolving, gluttonous beast has had on so many non-English language cultures - as well as the surreptitious, drug-like ways in which it can infiltrate individual psyches.
Full Product Details
Author: Vaughan Rapatahana ,
Pauline Bunce
Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Volume: 9
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.475kg
ISBN: 9781847697493
ISBN 10: 1847697496
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 22 June 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A wonderful and rewarding collection of contributions which critically examine how English can take over the language curriculum in schools throughout the world, almost always at the expense of other languages. Andy Kirkpatrick, author of English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN: A Multilingual Model English Language as Hydra is both poignant and honest in its reasoned and passionate evocation of this language's entrenched link with some of the ills of the world and its impact on speakers' subjectivities. Ruanni Tupas, author of (Re)making Society: The Politics of Language, Discourse, and Identity in the Philippines English Language as Hydra opens our eyes to how empires and imperialism operate through linguistic ideologies and discourse strategies as powerful tools of domination - often with the active participation of the leaders of subaltern peoples and minorities. Rainer Enrique Hamel, author of Language Empires, Linguistic Imperialism and the Future of Global Languages
A wonderful and rewarding collection of contributions which critically examine how English can take over the language curriculum in schools throughout the world, almost always at the expense of other languages. Andy Kirkpatrick, author of English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN: A Multilingual Model English Language as Hydra is both poignant and honest in its reasoned and passionate evocation of this language's entrenched link with some of the ills of the world and its impact on speakers' subjectivities. Ruanni Tupas, author of (Re)making Society: The Politics of Language, Discourse, and Identity in the Philippines The Hydra of English opens our eyes to how empires and imperialism operate through linguistic ideologies and discourse strategies as powerful tools of domination - often with the active participation of the leaders of subaltern peoples and minorities. Rainer Enrique Hamel, author of Language Empires, Linguistic Imperialism and the Future of Global Languages.
Author Information
Author Website: http://www.alphabetheadaches.com
Vaughan Rapatahana was born in Patea, Aotearoa-New Zealand. He has a doctorate from the University of Auckland and he has worked as a teacher in the Republic of Nauru, Brunei Darussalam, the United Arab Emirates, China and Hong Kong. He has written widely in a variety of genres, and is the author of several books, collections of poems and poetry teaching resources. Pauline Bunce is an Australian teacher who has worked in Sri Lanka, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Her doctoral research with Charles Darwin University in Australia and her regular feature articles in the South China Morning Post have had a major influence on English teaching practices in Hong Kong.
