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Meierkord, Christiane. World Englishes at the Grassroots [[electronic resource].]. — Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 1 online resource (290 p.). — Description based upon print version of record. — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2898008.pdf>.

Record create date: 3/27/2021

Subject: English language; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative

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Bringing together an international range of contributors, this book explores face-to-face uses of English in a range of grassroots multilingual contexts.

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Table of Contents

  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Contributors
  • CHAPTER 1 Introduction: English Spreading at the Grassroots
  • CHAPTER 2 Grassroots English, Learner English, Second-language English, English as a Lingua Franca …: What’s in a Name
  • PART I: English at the grassroots in former spheres of British interest
  • CHAPTER 3 The Sociolinguistic Profile of English at the Grassroots Level: A Comparison of Northern and Western Uganda
  • CHAPTER 4 English Language Learning Trajectories among Zanzibaris Working in Tourism
  • CHAPTER 5 Access to English and the Englishes of the Disadvantaged: Examples from Uganda and South Africa
  • CHAPTER 6 Artistic Re-creation of Grassroots English: Ideologies and Structures in English Vinglish
  • PART II: English in trade and work migratio
  • CHAPTER 7 Facets of Intercultural Communication Employed in the Conversations of Local Arab Traders in Bahrain
  • CHAPTER 8 The Value of Grassroots English for Bangladeshi Migrants to the Middle East
  • CHAPTER 9 Grassroots Diffusion of English in a ‘Blue-collar’ Workplace: The Case of a Multilingual Cleaning Company in New Jersey, USA
  • PART III: English in forced migration
  • CHAPTER 10 Language Use among Syrian Refugees in Germany
  • CHAPTER 11 Uprooted Speakers’ Grassroots English: Metalinguistic Perspectives of Asylum Seekers in Germany
  • CHAPTER 12 Onward Migration from Italy to the UK: Reshaped Linguistic Repertoires and the Role of English
  • Index

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