TY  - BOOK
AU  - BUNCE,Pauline
AU  - PHILLIPSON,Robert
AU  - RAPATAHANA,Vaughan
AU  - TUPAS,Ruanni
TI  - Why English?: Confronting the Hydra 
T2  - Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
SN  - 9781783095858
AV  - P40.5.L38 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit, PA : 
PB  - Multilingual Matters, 
KW  - DE-Filologie
KW  - resursă online
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Series Editor’s Foreword /; Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove --; Introduction /; Bunce, Pauline / Phillipson, Robert / Rapatahana, Vaughan / Tupas, Ruanni --; Part 1: Hydra at Large --; 1. The English Language in a Global Context: Between Expansion and Resistance /; Mazrui, Alamin --; 2. Promoting English: Hydras Old and New /; Phillipson, Robert --; 3. English, Neocolonialism and Forgetting /; Tupas, Ruanni --; 4. The English Language as Naga in Indonesia /; Coleman, Hywel --; 5. Offshore Call Centre Work is Breeding a New Colonialism /; Boussebaa, Mehdi --; Part 2: Hydra Mythology --; 6. Confronting Language Myths, Linguicism and Racism in English Language Teaching in Japan /; Kubota, Ryuko / Okuda, Tomoyo --; 7. Mr Jones: Mi Laik Askim Yu Samting /; Smith, Hilary --; 8. Must the (Western) Hydra Be Blond(e)? Performing Cultural ‘Authenticity’ in Intercultural Education /; Stanley, Phiona --; 9. Voluntary Overseas English Language Teaching: A Myopic, Altruistic Hydra /; Bunce, Pauline --; 10. English Language as ‘Fatal Gadget’ in Iceland /; Kristinsson, Ari Páll --; 11. The English Hydra as Invader on the Post-Communist ‘New Periphery’ in Bulgaria /; Templer, Bill --; 12. The English Alphabet: Alpha-Best or Alpha-Beast? /; Bunce, Pauline --; 13. ‘Languages’ /; Lai-Ming, Tammy Ho --; Part 3: Confronting the Hydra --; 14. Mauritian Kreol Confronts English and French Hydras /; Collen, Lindsey --; 15. ‘Hydra Languages’ and Exclusion versus Local Languages and Community Participation in three African Countries /; Heugh, Kathleen / Chiatoh, Blasius Agha-ah --; 16. The Destruction of Nadia’s Dream: The English Language Tyrant in Pakistan’s Education System /; Mustafa, Zubeida --; 17. The (Illusory) Promise of English in India /; Rao, A. Giridhar --; Part 4: Resistance and Cohabitation with the Hydra --; 18. A Personal Reflection on Chican@ Language and Identity in the US-Mexico Borderlands: The English-Language Hydra as Past and Present Imperialism /; Martinez, Aja Y. --; 19. The Struggle to Raise Bilingual Children in the Belly of the English Hydra Beast: The United States of America /; Demont-Heinrich, Christof --; 20. TEFL and International Politics: A Personal Narrative /; Edge, Julian --; 21. Hungary: A Sham Fightback Against the Domination of English /; Kontra, Miklós --; 22. The English Language as a Trojan Horse within the People’s Republic of China /; Gao, Mobo / Rapatahana, Vaughan --; 23. TEFL as Hydra: Rescuing Brazilian Teacher Educators from ‘Privilege’ /; Jordão, Clarissa Menezes --; 24. ‘Writing back (to the centre)’ /; Rapatahana, Vaughan --; Afterword: Decentring the Hydra: Towards a more Equitable Linguistic Order /; Kabel, Ahmed
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783095858
ER  -