De-hegemonizing language standards: learning from (post)colonial Englishes about "English"
Here, an examination of so-called uneducated and otherwise non-standard usage in the Sri Lankan context, including popular cultural and protest writing and speech, shows that Sri Lankans communicate powerfully and creatively in this medium. The legitimization of this practice on the margins leads to a de-hegemonizing of language standards. What can be seen in the Sri Lankan context is not specific to it, but shown to be typical of all languages in use, and, in an analogous argument, the claim i…
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- Full title :De-hegemonizing language standards : learning from (post)colonial Englishes about "English" / Arjuna Parakrama.
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Here, an examination of so-called uneducated and otherwise non-standard usage in the Sri Lankan context, including popular cultural and protest writing and speech, shows that Sri Lankans communicate powerfully and creatively in this medium. The legitimization of this practice on the margins leads to a de-hegemonizing of language standards. What can be seen in the Sri Lankan context is not specific to it, but shown to be typical of all languages in use, and, in an analogous argument, the claim is extended from the narrowly linguistic sphere to the much broader field of discursive practice in general.
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- Publication Date:1995.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):MacMillan Press, St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication:Basingstoke, Hampshire
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1995.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxxvii, 216 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0333616340, 9780333616345, 0312123167, 9780312123161, 0333616359, 9780333616352
- oclc:ocm30624788
- LC Classification:PE2751
- Dewey Decimal:427/.95493
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