The poetics and politics of Englishes in late modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2293876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rakesh M Bhatt (0000-0003-2455-3235, University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign Urbana IL 61801 USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 41-52 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Englishes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0883-2919 • E-ISSN: 1467-971X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/weng.12392 |
| OpenAlex | W2948726549 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
This paper argues that the 'liberation linguistics' perspective that Professor Kachru championed achieved two important aims: (i) it explored the creative manipulation of multilinguals' repertoire in the late-modern contexts of mobility and complexity; and (ii) it brought into focus the sociolinguistic inequalities engendered by a politics of conformity. Braj Kachru's teaching consistently highlighted the heterogeneity and multifunctionality of language, together with the meaning potential of variation, and his work continues to provide inspiration for the ongoing development of the field, and the 'gloriously impure' alchemy of English that he has bequeathed to us all
Aesthetics · Conformity · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Modernity · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · World Englishes · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Second Language Learning and Teaching
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes
Multiplicity and Contention among Language Ideologies
Language Problems of Developing Nations
Language in Late Modernity
Discourses in Place
Language varieties and standard language
Liberation linguistics and the Quirk Concern
Why the film version of The Lord of the Rings betrays Tolkien's novel [Part 1]
Langage et pouvoir symbolique
Chronotopeography
Commercial radio
Experts, dialects, and discourse
The Alchemy of English
Models of English for The Third World
Monolingual Bias in SLA Research
A Reality Check for SLA Theories
Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language
Neurolinguists, beware! The bilingual is not two monolinguals in one person
Sociolinguistic scales
Linguistic Landscapes in a Multilingual World
From 'Multi-ethnic adolescent heteroglossia' to 'Contemporary urban vernaculars
Socially realistic linguistics
In other words
Bilingualism on display
Linguistic Landscape and Ethnolinguistic Vitality
World Englishes
The paradigms of marginality
Prescriptivism, creativity and world Englishes
The ecology of bilingual competence
The power and politics of English
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |