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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.
List of contents
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 Tankosić, Sender Dovchin, and Rhonda Oliver
Index
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
