Posthumanist World Englishes

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Posthumanist World Englishes
Contents
1 Regimes of Truth in the Study of Language
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Cracks in Current ‘Truths’ about Language
1.2.1 Agency
1.2.2 Communities and Language Varieties
1.3 Conclusion
2 Posthumanism and the Linguistic Assemblage
2.1 Introduction
2.2 On Posthumanism
2.3 The Systems Approach and its Critics
2.4 The Assemblage
2.5 Three Things to Note about Assemblages
2.6 The Linguistic Assemblage
2.6.1 Regularities in Language
2.6.2 There Is No Language in its Totality
2.6.3 Circulation Involves Assembling and Reassembling
2.6.4 Decentring, Re-Centring and Reconceptualizing Language
3 Creativity and World Englishes
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Creativity Encircled
3.3 Indexicality
3.4 Creativity Assembled
3.5 Discussion
3.6 Conclusion
4 Language Policy and World Englishes
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Performance of Policy
4.3 English Language Education: The Common European
Framework of Reference for Languages
4.4 The Relationship Between PCEs and Non-PCEs
4.4.1 Industries With the Highest and Lowest BEI Scores
4.4.2 Countries With the Highest and Lowest BEI Scores
4.5 Conclusion
5 Conclusion: Linguistics for the Ontologically Curious
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Ontological Naivety
5.3 Ontological Curiosity
5.4 Conclusion
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