Abstract
This chapter analyzes language ideologies within the context of world Englishes, focusing mainly on language ideological debates that have shaped the field of the study of world Englishes. These debates highlight the importance of language ideological analysis for a proper understanding of the social stratification of English language variation; to answer, ultimately, the important sociolinguistic question: why does language vary in the ways that it does? The answer to this rather simple question is inextricably tied to the complicated notion of power, or how power works. Building on the work of J. Irvine and S. Gal’s ‘Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation’, this chapter shows how certain ideological strategies are continually manipulated to legitimize and rationalize the power of ‘standard’ (English) language.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes |
| Editors | Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Devyani Sharma |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199777716 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- world Englishes
- Standard English
- language ideological debates
- power