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This book challenges the dominant tendency in world Englishes scholarship to rely on the 'nation' as a static spatial entity and reliable analytic category. Using the transnational Korean context as a case in point, the authors analyse how the practices and ideologies of the English language reflect the complex and unexpected flows of globalisation. Examining topics such as the spoken English of South Korean youth and English education in North Korea, this interdisciplinary work gathers both established and emerging scholars from a range of language-related fields to evaluate English as a dynamic and evolving language beyond purely 'English-speaking' countries. This edited collection will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of world Englishes, multilingualism, second language acquisition and globalisation.
List of contents
- Chapter 1. Mapping Korean Englishes in Transnational Contexts.- I. Ideologies of Korean Englishes.- Chapter 2. Sociolinguistics of Transnationalism and Issues of Language, Gender and Generation: Korean Migrant Families in Australia.- Chapter 3. Class, Competence and Language Ideology: Beyond Korean Englishes.- II. Forms of Korean Englishes.- Chapter 4. Spoken English in Korea: An Expanding Circle Revisited.- Chapter 5. Korean Ethnic Orientation and Regional Linguistic Variability in the Multiethnic Context of Houston.- Chapter 6. Between Words, Between Bodies: Practices of Listening across Korean and English in Ishle Yi Park's Poetry.- III. Korean Englishes as Transnational Social Practice.- Chapter 7. The Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces of Englishes in South Korea.- Chapter 8. English as a Discursive and Social Communication Resource for Contemporary South Koreans.- IV. Korean Englishes in Transnational Academic Spaces.- Chapter 9. "Korean is Forbidden": Translingual Negotiationof Local Language Ideologies across Transnational Spaces.- Chapter 10. Korean English Teachers' Conflicts and Struggles over Local, Global and "Legitimate" Englishes in School.- Chapter 11. A Brief Description of English Education in North Korea from the Perspective of Two Defectors.
About the author
Christopher J. Jenks is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, USA. He has also held positions at the City University of Hong Kong, Newcastle University and Konkuk University. He has published widely across a range of topics including intercultural communication and second language acquisition.
Jerry Won Lee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in global Englishes, multilingualism and cultural studies. He has published on such topics as multilingualism and national identity across a range of journals.
Summary
This book challenges the dominant tendency in world Englishes scholarship to rely on the ‘nation’ as a static spatial entity and reliable analytic category. Using the transnational Korean context as a case in point, the authors analyse how the practices and ideologies of the English language reflect the complex and unexpected flows of globalisation. Examining topics such as the spoken English of South Korean youth and English education in North Korea, this interdisciplinary work gathers both established and emerging scholars from a range of language-related fields to evaluate English as a dynamic and evolving language beyond purely ‘English-speaking’ countries. This edited collection will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of world Englishes, multilingualism, second language acquisition and globalisation.
