English Language As Hydra

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book argues that the English language industry has become a swirling, beguiling monster, unashamedly intent on challenging local lingua-diversity and threatening individual identities. It brings together linguists, literary figures and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging exposé of this enormous Hydra in action on four continents. Zusammenfassung This book argues that the English language industry has become a swirling, beguiling monster, unashamedly intent on challenging local lingua-diversity and threatening individual identities. It brings together linguists, literary figures and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging exposé of this enormous Hydra in action on four continents.

Product details

• Authors: Vaughan Rapatahana
• Assisted by: Pauline Bunce (Editor), Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2012
• EAN: 9781847697493
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-749-3
• Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights; Linguistic Diversity and Langu; Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights; Linguistic Diversity and Langu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)