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Language as commodity

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Continuum
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Subjects

International Communication, Language spread, Political aspects, Economic aspects, Language and languages, Language and culture, English language, standardization, English language, foreign countries, English language, study and teaching, Globalization, Sociolinguistics
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Language as Commodity: Global Structures, Local Marketplaces
2008, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Cover of: Language As Commodity
Language As Commodity: Global Structures, Local Marketplaces
2008, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
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Language as commodity: global structures, local marketplaces
2008, Continuum
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Peter K.W. Tan and Rani Rubdy
Dimensions of globalization and applied linguistics / Paul Bruthiaux
Linguistic instrumentalism in Singapore / Lionel Wee
The commodification of Malay : trading in futures / Lubna Alsagoff
Beyond linguistic instrumentalism : the place of Singlish in Singapore / Chng Huang Hoon
Linguistic pragmatism, globalization and the impact on the patterns of input in Singaporean Chinese homes / Ng Bee Chin
Anatomies of linguistic commodification : the case of English in the Philippines vis-a-vis other languages in the multilingual marketplace / T. Ruanni F. Tupas
The English language as a commodity in Malaysia : the view through the medium-of-instruction debate / Peter K.W. Tan
English in India : the privilege and privileging of social class / Rani Rubdy
Negotiating language value in multilingual China / Agnes S.L. Lam and Wenfeng Wang
Language policy, vernacular education and language economics in postcolonial Africa / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
On the appropriateness of the metaphor of LOSS / David Block
The commoditization of English and the Bologna process : global products and services, exchange mechanisms and trans-national labour / Michael Singh and Jinghe Han.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.44
Library of Congress
P120.E27 L34 2008, P35

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Pagination
xiii, 228 p. :
Number of pages
228

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL22975402M
ISBN 10
1847064221, 184706423X
ISBN 13
9781847064226, 9781847064233
LCCN
2008300337
OCLC/WorldCat
212847586
Goodreads
6548597
6759702

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OL18349988W

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