"Entangled Englishes offers an innovative approach to understanding the ongoing globalization of English by examining it in relation to its multiple, complex, and oftentimes unexpected entanglements. The book explores entangled narratives of English thatare imprinted and in circulation in various global contexts. The chapters examine the globalization of English as a phenomenon that is invariably entangled with and through various languages, cultural forms such as ideological commitments and social norms, or even (im)material objects such as food, signage, and attire. Offering a unique range of perspectives from leading scholars worldwide, this innovative volume presents exciting new research directions for anyone interested in the historical and contemporary complexities of language. This text is key reading for students and researchers of World Englishes, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, and Linguistic Anthropology"--
Entangled Englishes offers an innovative approach to understanding the ongoing globalization of English by examining it in relation to its multiple, complex, and oftentimes unexpected entanglements.
The book explores entangled narratives of English that are imprinted and in circulation in various global contexts. The chapters examine the globalization of English as a phenomenon that is invariably entangled with and through various languages; cultural forms such as ideological commitments and social norms,;or even (im)material objects such as food, signage, and attire. Offering a unique range of perspectives from leading scholars worldwide, this innovative volume presents exciting new research directions for anyone interested in the historical and contemporary complexities of language.
This text is key reading for students and researchers of World Englishes, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, and linguistic anthropology.
Entangled Englishes offers an innovative approach to understanding the ongoing globalization of English by examining it in relation to its multiple, complex, and oftentimes unexpected entanglements.
Foreword
Alastair Pennycook
Introduction: Entangled Englishes
Jerry Won Lee and Sofia Rüdiger
I. Entanglements of Sociopolitics
1 Citizen sociolinguists on the entanglements between Pidgin and English in
social media spaces
Christina Higgins and Kristen Urada
2 Rap in the local-global interface: Social and political activism in South
Asia
Shaila Sultana and Bal Krishna Sharma
3 Word-sound-power: Entanglements of global Patwa in India
Jaspal Naveel Singh
4 Entanglements within COVID-19 Linguistic Landscapes in Kyoto, Japan
Yumi Matsumoto and Ivan Jin
II. Entanglements of Race
5 An entangled unease: Intrusive Englishes and allyship in Black feminism
Daniel N. Silva
6 No English, no English: Raciolinguistic entanglements in Czechia
Stephanie Rudwick
7 Re-/Imagining racialized entanglements of Englishes and peoples: A call for
a quantum ethos
Patriann Smith
III. Entanglements of Practice
8 Entangled bodies, entangled ideologies: The case of Bikram yoga
practitioners
Kellie Gonçalves
9 Digital assemblages and their English entanglements: Digital design, voice
assistant use and smartphone setting choices of translingual speakers in
Berlin
Didem Leblebici and Britta Schneider
10 English online/offline: Distinguishing material and materialist
interpretations of entanglements
Ron Darvin
IV. Entanglements of Education
11 Entangling English teaching with content teaching: Reflections of an
English language
educator in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) context
Keith Tong, Fay Chen, and Angel Lin
12 Educators reflections in translingual classrooms: Entanglement of
language, culture, and emotionality in Australia
Ana Tankosi, Sender Dovchin, and Rhonda Oliver
Index
Jerry Won Lee is a professor of applied linguistics at the University of California, Irvine. His books include Language as Hope, co-authored with Daniel N. Silva (2024) and Locating Translingualism (2022), winner of the 2024 American Association for Applied Linguistics Book Award.
Sofia Rüdiger is postdoctoral researcher in English linguistics at the University of Bayreuth. She is author of Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English (2019) and editor of Discourse Markers and World Englishes (2021) and Global and Local Perspectives on Language Contact (2024).
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