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Global English and Political Economy [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 620 g
  • Sari: Language, Society and Political Economy
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2021
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138811122
  • ISBN-13: 9781138811126
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 272 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 620 g
  • Sari: Language, Society and Political Economy
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2021
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138811122
  • ISBN-13: 9781138811126
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In this book, John O’Regan examines the role of political economy in the worldwide spread of English and traces the origins and development of the dominance of English to the endless accumulation of capital in a capitalist world-system.

O’Regan combines Marxist perspectives of capital accumulation with world-systems analysis, international political economy, and studies of imperialism and empire to present a historical account of the ‘free riding’ of English upon the global capital networks of the capitalist world-system. Relevant disciplinary perspectives on global English are examined in this light, including superdiversity, translanguaging, translingual practice, trans-spatiality, language commodification, World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca. Global English and Political Economy presents an original historical and interdisciplinary interpretation of the global ascent of English, while also raising important theoretical and practical questions for perspectives which suggest that the time of the traditional models of English is past.

Providing an introduction to key theoretical perspectives in political economy, this book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in applied linguistics, World Englishes and related fields of study.

Arvustused

With this book, John ORegan has mastered the art of engaging readers with his elegant and sharp scholarship, however complex the subject matter may be. He treats seriously and passionately the long overdue need to examine and document the political economic dimension of language, specifically in relation to the historical global dominance of English. In so doing, ORegan challenges established and promoted bodies of work by questioning normative and in-fashion ideologies and thinking, seeing beyond oft-celebrated sentiments and positions in order to deliver a work that is not only thought-provoking, but also of great merit and intellectual weight.

Phan Le Ha, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei

A careful, comprehensive and critical study of the intertwined tentacles of English and capitalism. John ORegan presents here the big and the long picture of the political economy of English, showing how the global dominance of English and the development of the capitalist world-system cannot be usefully considered in isolation. A study of real importance.

Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

In conclusion, with this seminal work on the historical and ongoing alliance of capitalism and a normative English in helping one another, ORegan has indeed filled in a crucial number of the historical and economic lacunae which have existed...in applied linguistic and sociolinguistic accounts of the spread of English as a global language (p. 2) not only for him as he states, but also importantly for many of us who have been calling out capitalism for what it has been doing to us for the past several centuries.

Christian W. Chun, Applied Linguistics 2021: 14

Deeply insightful and intellectually stimulating, ORegans book will be essential reading for scholars and students of applied linguistics, World Englishes, and associated fields of study.

Pamoda M. Jayaweera, Language in Society

The book draws diverse yet highly relevant concepts together to present a case that should make us all stop and think about where ELT is heading. This book is likely to have considerable impact in informing future research into, and discussion of, the nature and purpose of English in the global context and is well worth reading.

Steve Brown, ELT Journal, Volume 77, Issue 1, January 2023

Acknowledgements viii
1 The political economy of English in a capitalist world-system
1(43)
English and capital
1(8)
Capital and capital accumulation
9(3)
Capital circulation and the free riding of English
12(4)
Capital as part of an expanding world-system
16(2)
Capital as a dialectical process
18(4)
Accumulation and classical imperialism
22(3)
The development of underdevelopment
25(2)
Endless accumulation in a capitalist world-system
27(4)
Structural power in international political economy
31(5)
Accumulation as the endless repetition of the original sin
36(5)
Capital and normative English across the longue duree
41(3)
2 English and the political economy of informal empire, 1688--1850
44(25)
The development of informal empire
44(5)
The imperialism of free trade
49(5)
Gentlemanly capitalism
54(4)
The intrusion of capital, 1688--1815
58(4)
Capital export and the opening to free trade, 1815--1850
62(7)
3 The political economy of global English, 1850--1914
69(33)
The intrusion of capital post-1850
69(4)
The hinge of empire: India and the diffusion of English
73(6)
The social diffusion of English: Shanghai
79(5)
The expansion of English in Africa
84(5)
Railway imperialism and the transportation of English
89(3)
Railway imperialism and the structuring of English in China
92(8)
Invisible chains of English across the longue duree
100(2)
4 The political economy of global English, 1918--1979
102(33)
Handing over the baton: transition, 1870--1918
102(4)
Networks of English and the rise of US capital, 1918--1945
106(3)
English and the institutional structuring of the world-economy, post-1945
109(4)
Cold War and the structuring of English in East Asia
113(5)
Communist containment and English incorporation
118(5)
US post-war capital networks: Europe, Latin America and the Middle East
123(3)
US linguistic seignorage and the transnationalization of English, 1968--1979
126(6)
1974 oil crisis and debt structuring in the capitalist world-economy
132(3)
5 Capital-centric English and the modern world-system, 1979--2008
135(23)
Capitalist crisis management and the structuration of English
135(6)
Standard English as the capital-centric lingua franca of the capitalist world-system
141(7)
Sub-prime, the derivatives revolution and capital-centric English
148(5)
Language as a dialectical practical consciousness and the financial crisis of 2007--8
153(5)
6 The decline of the US world-hegemony
158(23)
US hegemonic decline and the rise of China
158(2)
China's structural power
160(4)
Hegemonic transition in a world-system
164(4)
US economic nationalism and the challenge of China
168(3)
US destabilization of the international trading system
171(3)
Impediments to the Chinese global hegemony
174(7)
7 Superdiverse translingualism, commodification and trans-spatial resistances
181(28)
The multi/plural turn and the persistence of the normative form
181(5)
The ownership of English
186(3)
Language commodification
189(6)
Resistance and superdiverse translingualism
195(5)
Phonocentrism in superdiverse translingualism
200(5)
The normative form as a social relation of capital and capitalism
205(4)
8 The demise of capitalism and the end of the hegemony of English
209(12)
Capitalist crisis and the normative hegemony
209(2)
Immiseration, inequality and anti-systemic assimilation
211(3)
Ideological endism and the collapse of capitalism
214(4)
Capitalist disintegration and the end of the English hegemony
218(3)
References 221(33)
Index 254
John P. ORegan is Professor of Critical Applied Linguistics at UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK. He is co-editor of Education and the Discourse of Global Neoliberalism (Routledge, 2021).