David Graddol
Biographic Data
| ID | 113368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Graddol |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Graddol |
| SIGNATURE | GRADDOL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conceptualising the vertical landscape: The case of the International Finance Centre in the world's most vertical city
This article introduces the crucial yet much overlooked dimension of verticality to landscape-related research through a case study of one of the most iconic skyscrapers in Hong Kong, the world's most vertical city. A tripartite analytic model is proposed to examine the dialogical interaction between the discursive and material landscapes in a vertical layout, while at the same time to explore the intricate interrelations among social actors, pra…
Borderland English: Signs of transition across the expiring China–Hong Kong border
Scholars working in the World Englishes tradition have usually been concerned with those varieties of English which, following Kachru, belong to the ‘outer circle’ of Englishes that emerged in former colonies. Recent criticisms of the World Englishes approach have argued that too little attention has been paid to the social and economic contexts in which these forms of English are used, since they are as important as linguistic features in charac…
Varieties of English in the urban landscapes of Hong Kong and Shenzhen: Changing English landscapes around a Chinese border
The border between mainland China and Hong Kong has become one of the world's most fascinating linguistic divides. On one side lies the mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen, stretching the entire length of the border – an extraordinary urban development which in many ways epitomises the recent urbanisation of modern China. On the other side lies the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong (see Figure 1). It is not possible to cross from Hon…
Editors' Comment
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Notes from East Asia: English in the Pearl River Delta
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English in China today: The current popularity of English in China is unprecedented, and has been fuelled by the recent political and social development of Chinese society
According to a 2010 China Daily article, the number of English learners in China is now around 400 million, approximately one third of China's population (see also Wei and Su, this issue). The importance of English in the state education system has been supplemented by the rapid growth of privately-run language schools and training institutes across the country in recent years. The same article quoted a comment by Ms Xiao Yan, the public relation…
Notes from East Asia
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Towards developmental world Englishes
Over the last three decades scholars promoting the world Englishes paradigm (WE) have worked towards establishing a more positive attitude towards international varieties of English. However, despite the best intentions of Western linguists working in this field, there is an obvious imbalance between the developed and developing world in many contexts of English language education. Educators and teachers in many Outer Circle and Expanding Circle …
The ET column. Will Chinese take over from English as the world's most important language
Whenever I've given a lecture on the future of English, the question I am most frequently asked is ‘Will Chinese take over from English as the global language?’. With China's economy continuing to grow fast, whilst those of the west slow down in recession, China has been rising up the world economic rankings and has overtaken other economies faster than predicted. It seems no time since it overhauled the UK economy to become the world's number 4 …
How far will English go
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From Africa to Australia by train and plane
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From English worldwide to graveyard humour
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The ET Column: Thoughts from Kolkata on English in India
One new feature of English Today in this issue, and for future issues, is The ET Column , where we'll be asking people in the know – academics, broadcasters, educators, linguists, teachers and others concerned with English worldwide – to write a column for the journal on issues of controversy, debate, work in the field, and matters of topical and immediate interest. In this issue, David Graddol is writing from India, where he's currently research…
Tom McArthur's English Today
As English Today notches up a century, it's high time to acknowledge Tom McArthur's inimitable contribution to the study of English worldwide. Tom McArthur's contribution to English language studies has been immense, and has had a powerful impact at a number of levels. Tom started his life as an educator, gaining crucial exposure to English across the globe very early in his career, when in one of his first jobs teaching English at the Cathedral …
From Beowulf to Bollywood
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Interview with Tom McArthur
A few years ago, David Graddol interviewed Tom McArthur about his early background, and about a range of issues concerning the spread of English as a global language. This interview is reprinted here
English Today and Tomorrow
Some of those who wrote in have known Tom personally for many years, while others had come to know Tom only through his writing and through the journal, but, as editors, we were struck by the warmth and sincerity of all the tributes to Tom's work that came in. We are also sure that many others would have sent messages, had they known of this occasion. So many people in this field share not only very warm thoughts about Tom, but also a major debt …
A moving and mystifying target language
This issue presents a selection of articles on English in various contexts and settings, with a significant focus on education in the first four. Susan Van Rooy describes the language experiences of South Korean academics and their families in a small town in South Africa, and the consequences of their stay abroad for their English language proficiency. She reminds us that not all EFL learners of English have the ‘Inner Circle’ mainstream as thei…
English yesterday and today
This is the first issue of ET in the ‘post-McArthur era’, edited by a new team, that happily still includes Tom. In preparing this issue, the new members of the squad became even more aware of Tom's editorial skills, the effort he has put into making ET succeed over 23 years and his general lightness of touch. It is entirely appropriate that this first issue therefore contain something of the old and the new in English studies. We decided to prin…
From the new editors
WE FACE the task of editing ET with a mixture of trepidation and excitement. Trepidation because our editorial efforts will follow those of Tom McArthur who has been editor of English Today since its inception, and who has made such an immense contribution to scholarship in this field. Indeed, it is no small measure of Tom's stature and capabilities that it has been decided at least three new editors are required to take his place. We have large …
Redesigning English: New Texts, New Identities
Describing Language
Response to Hammersley's Evaluation of Two Studies of Gender Imbalance in Primary Classrooms
Speaking Fundamental Frequency: Some Physical and Social Correlates
Previous correlational studies have found no relationship between speaker height, weight and speaking fundamental frequency, although it has often been claimed that listeners can correctly identify the height, weight, and bodily build of speakers and that voice pitch is one of the cues used. In this study various social factors were controlled for, and contrasting samples of speech from each subject were analysed. Twelve men and 15 women, drawn f…
Towards developmental world Englishes
Over the last three decades scholars promoting the world Englishes paradigm (WE) have worked towards establishing a more positive attitude towards international varieties of English. However, despite the best intentions of Western linguists working in this field, there is an obvious imbalance between the developed and developing world in many contexts of English language education. Educators and teachers in many Outer Circle and Expanding Circle …
Conceptualising the vertical landscape: The case of the International Finance Centre in the world's most vertical city
This article introduces the crucial yet much overlooked dimension of verticality to landscape-related research through a case study of one of the most iconic skyscrapers in Hong Kong, the world's most vertical city. A tripartite analytic model is proposed to examine the dialogical interaction between the discursive and material landscapes in a vertical layout, while at the same time to explore the intricate interrelations among social actors, pra…
Speaking Fundamental Frequency: Some Physical and Social Correlates
Previous correlational studies have found no relationship between speaker height, weight and speaking fundamental frequency, although it has often been claimed that listeners can correctly identify the height, weight, and bodily build of speakers and that voice pitch is one of the cues used. In this study various social factors were controlled for, and contrasting samples of speech from each subject were analysed. Twelve men and 15 women, drawn f…
Response to Hammersley's Evaluation of Two Studies of Gender Imbalance in Primary Classrooms
Speaking Fundamental Frequency: Some Physical and Social Correlates
Previous correlational studies have found no relationship between speaker height, weight and speaking fundamental frequency, although it has often been claimed that listeners can correctly identify the height, weight, and bodily build of speakers and that voice pitch is one of the cues used. In this study various social factors were controlled for, and contrasting samples of speech from each subject were analysed. Twelve men and 15 women, drawn f…
Response to Hammersley's Evaluation of Two Studies of Gender Imbalance in Primary Classrooms
Redesigning English: New Texts, New Identities
Describing Language
From the new editors
WE FACE the task of editing ET with a mixture of trepidation and excitement. Trepidation because our editorial efforts will follow those of Tom McArthur who has been editor of English Today since its inception, and who has made such an immense contribution to scholarship in this field. Indeed, it is no small measure of Tom's stature and capabilities that it has been decided at least three new editors are required to take his place. We have large …
A moving and mystifying target language
This issue presents a selection of articles on English in various contexts and settings, with a significant focus on education in the first four. Susan Van Rooy describes the language experiences of South Korean academics and their families in a small town in South Africa, and the consequences of their stay abroad for their English language proficiency. She reminds us that not all EFL learners of English have the ‘Inner Circle’ mainstream as thei…
English yesterday and today
This is the first issue of ET in the ‘post-McArthur era’, edited by a new team, that happily still includes Tom. In preparing this issue, the new members of the squad became even more aware of Tom's editorial skills, the effort he has put into making ET succeed over 23 years and his general lightness of touch. It is entirely appropriate that this first issue therefore contain something of the old and the new in English studies. We decided to prin…
From Africa to Australia by train and plane
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
From English worldwide to graveyard humour
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The ET Column: Thoughts from Kolkata on English in India
One new feature of English Today in this issue, and for future issues, is The ET Column , where we'll be asking people in the know – academics, broadcasters, educators, linguists, teachers and others concerned with English worldwide – to write a column for the journal on issues of controversy, debate, work in the field, and matters of topical and immediate interest. In this issue, David Graddol is writing from India, where he's currently research…
Tom McArthur's English Today
As English Today notches up a century, it's high time to acknowledge Tom McArthur's inimitable contribution to the study of English worldwide. Tom McArthur's contribution to English language studies has been immense, and has had a powerful impact at a number of levels. Tom started his life as an educator, gaining crucial exposure to English across the globe very early in his career, when in one of his first jobs teaching English at the Cathedral …
From Beowulf to Bollywood
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Interview with Tom McArthur
A few years ago, David Graddol interviewed Tom McArthur about his early background, and about a range of issues concerning the spread of English as a global language. This interview is reprinted here
English Today and Tomorrow
Some of those who wrote in have known Tom personally for many years, while others had come to know Tom only through his writing and through the journal, but, as editors, we were struck by the warmth and sincerity of all the tributes to Tom's work that came in. We are also sure that many others would have sent messages, had they known of this occasion. So many people in this field share not only very warm thoughts about Tom, but also a major debt …
The ET column. Will Chinese take over from English as the world's most important language
Whenever I've given a lecture on the future of English, the question I am most frequently asked is ‘Will Chinese take over from English as the global language?’. With China's economy continuing to grow fast, whilst those of the west slow down in recession, China has been rising up the world economic rankings and has overtaken other economies faster than predicted. It seems no time since it overhauled the UK economy to become the world's number 4 …
How far will English go
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Notes from East Asia
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Towards developmental world Englishes
Over the last three decades scholars promoting the world Englishes paradigm (WE) have worked towards establishing a more positive attitude towards international varieties of English. However, despite the best intentions of Western linguists working in this field, there is an obvious imbalance between the developed and developing world in many contexts of English language education. Educators and teachers in many Outer Circle and Expanding Circle …
Editors' Comment
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Notes from East Asia: English in the Pearl River Delta
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
English in China today: The current popularity of English in China is unprecedented, and has been fuelled by the recent political and social development of Chinese society
According to a 2010 China Daily article, the number of English learners in China is now around 400 million, approximately one third of China's population (see also Wei and Su, this issue). The importance of English in the state education system has been supplemented by the rapid growth of privately-run language schools and training institutes across the country in recent years. The same article quoted a comment by Ms Xiao Yan, the public relation…
Varieties of English in the urban landscapes of Hong Kong and Shenzhen: Changing English landscapes around a Chinese border
The border between mainland China and Hong Kong has become one of the world's most fascinating linguistic divides. On one side lies the mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen, stretching the entire length of the border – an extraordinary urban development which in many ways epitomises the recent urbanisation of modern China. On the other side lies the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong (see Figure 1). It is not possible to cross from Hon…
Borderland English: Signs of transition across the expiring China–Hong Kong border
Scholars working in the World Englishes tradition have usually been concerned with those varieties of English which, following Kachru, belong to the ‘outer circle’ of Englishes that emerged in former colonies. Recent criticisms of the World Englishes approach have argued that too little attention has been paid to the social and economic contexts in which these forms of English are used, since they are as important as linguistic features in charac…
Conceptualising the vertical landscape: The case of the International Finance Centre in the world's most vertical city
This article introduces the crucial yet much overlooked dimension of verticality to landscape-related research through a case study of one of the most iconic skyscrapers in Hong Kong, the world's most vertical city. A tripartite analytic model is proposed to examine the dialogical interaction between the discursive and material landscapes in a vertical layout, while at the same time to explore the intricate interrelations among social actors, pra…
Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Mathematics (9 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Physics (7 works) · China (6 works) · History (6 works)