globalization of english language essay pdf

Researching Globalization of English

• Reference work entry
• First Online: 28 May 2017
• Cite this reference work entry

• Joseph Sung-Yul Park 5  

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Language and Education ((ELE))

4045 Accesses

2 Citations

Research on the globalization of English – how the English language, no longer the language of the Anglo-Saxons, spread throughout the British Isles, colonies of the English-speaking empires, and the rest of the world, to gain the status of a global language, spoken by more and more people around the world – has developed through various methodologies that focused on the form, function, and ideologies of English. Over the past several decades, a wide range of methods has been employed, ranging from structural description to corpus analysis, from sociological analysis of domains to analysis of media texts, from matched guise technique to ethnographic and interactional analysis. But recent studies, due to the influence of poststructuralist perspectives on language, have increasingly questioned the implication that each of the three aspects of form, function, and ideology can be separately investigated on its own. An increasing number of studies thus shift their attention from nation-states to communities and abandon the assumption of fixed and predefined language boundaries to focus on speakers’ translingual practices as they draw upon multiple linguistic resources. Since the global spread of English is deeply implicated in the relations of power and inequality characteristic of neoliberalism, future innovations are likely to come from interdisciplinary perspectives that strive to move beyond the traditional scope of linguistics and language study toward interfaces with social dimensions that can illuminate the practical conditions of English in the world, such as language and materiality, or language and desire.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

• Available as PDF
• Read on any device
• Instant download
• Own it forever
• Available as EPUB and PDF
• Durable hardcover edition
• Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
• Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Berns, M. (2012). Research methods and world Englishes. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics . Oxford: Blackwell.

Google Scholar  

Bhatia, T. K. (1987). English in advertising: Multiple mixing and media. World Englishes, 6 (1), 33–48.

Article   Google Scholar  

Block, D., Gray, J., & Holborow, M. (2012). Neoliberalism and applied linguistics . London: Routledge.

Bolton, K. (2005). Where WE stands: Approaches, issues, and debate in world Englishes. World Englishes, 24 (1), 69–83.

Bolton, K. (2012). World Englishes and linguistic landscapes. World Englishes, 31 (1), 30–33.

Canagarajah, S. (2013). Translingual practice: Global Englishes and cosmopolitan relations . New York: Routledge.

Fishman, J. A., Cooper, R. L., & Conrad, A. W. (Eds.). (1977). The spread of English: The sociology of English as an additional language . Rowley: Newbury House.

García, O. (2009). Bilingual education in the 21st century: A global perspective . Oxford: Blackwell.

Graddol, D. (1997). The future of English? London: British Council.

Graddol, D. (2006). English next . London: British Council.

Greenbaum, S. (1996). Comparing English worldwide: The international corpus of English . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Henry, E. S. (2010). Interpretations of “Chinglish”: Native speakers, language learners and the enregisterment of a stigmatized code. Language in Society, 39 (05), 669–688.

Ho, M. L., & Platt, J. T. (1993). Dynamics of a contact continuum: Singaporean English . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kachru, B. B. (Ed.). (1982). The other tongue: English across cultures . Oxford: Pergamon.

Kachru, B. B. (1983). The Indianisation of English: The English language in India . New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Kachru, B. B. (1985). Standards, codification and sociolinguistic realism: The English language in the outer circle. In R. Quirk & H. G. Widdowson (Eds.), English in the world: Teaching and learning the language and literature (pp. 11–30). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kortmann, B., & Schneider, E. W. (Eds.). (2004). A handbook of varieties of English . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Leimgruber, J. (2012). Singapore English: An indexical approach. World Englishes, 31 (1), 1–14.

Martin, E. (2002). Mixing English in French advertising. World Englishes, 21 (3), 375–401.

May, S. (2014). Contesting public monolingualism and diglossia: Rethinking political theory and language policy for a multilingual world. Language Policy, 13 (4), 371–393.

Motha, S., & Lin, A. (2014). “Non-coercive rearrangements”: Theorizing desire in TESOL. TESOL Quarterly, 48 (2), 331–359.

Park, J. S. (2009). The local construction of a global language: Ideologies of English in South Korea . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Book   Google Scholar  

Park, J. S. (2014). Cartographies of language: Making sense of mobility among Korean transmigrants in Singapore. Language & Communication, 39 , 83–91.

Park, J. S., & Wee, L. (2012). Markets of English: Linguistic capital and language policy in a globalizing world . New York: Routledge.

Pavlenko, A. (2005). Emotions and multilingualism . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pennycook, A. (1998). English and the discourses of colonialism . London: Routledge.

Pennycook, A. (2001). Critical applied linguistics: A critical introduction . Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Pennycook, A. (2007). Global Englishes and transcultural flows . London: Routledge.

Pennycook, A., & Otsuji, E. (2014). Metrolingual multitasking and spatial repertoires: “Pizza mo two minutes coming”. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 18 (2), 161–184.

Phillipson, R. (1992). Linguistic imperialism . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Piller, I. (2001). Identity constructions in multilingual advertising. Language in Society, 30 (2), 153–186.

Platt, J., Weber, H., & Ho, M. L. (1984). The new Englishes . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Quirk, R. (1962). The use of English . London: Longman.

Rowland, L. (2016). English in the Japanese linguistic landscape: A motive analysis. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 37 (1), 40–55.

Schneider, E. W. (2003). The dynamics of new Englishes: From identity construction to dialect birth. Language, 79 (2), 233–281.

Schneider, E. W. (2007). Postcolonial English: Varieties around the world . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Seidlhofer, B. (2010). Giving VOICE to English as a lingua franca. In R. Facchinetti, D. Crystal, & B. Seidlhofer (Eds.), From international to local English – And back again (pp. 147–163). Bern: Peter Lang.

Shankar, S., & Cavanaugh, J. R. (2012). Language and materiality in global capitalism. Annual Review of Anthropology, 41 (1), 355–369.

Spivak, G. (2002). Postcolonial literature . Paper presented at the Graduate Seminar on Postcolonial Literature, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Tollefson, J. (1991). Planning language, planning inequality: Language policy in the community . London: Longman.

Trudgill, P., & Hannah, J. (1982). International English: A guide to varieties of standard English . London: Arnold.

Download references

Author information

Authors and affiliations.

Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, AS5, 7 Arts Link, 117570, Singapore, Singapore

Joseph Sung-Yul Park

You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Joseph Sung-Yul Park .

Editor information

Editors and affiliations.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Kendall A. King

Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Stephen May

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG

About this entry

Cite this entry.

Park, J.SY. (2017). Researching Globalization of English. In: King, K., Lai, YJ., May, S. (eds) Research Methods in Language and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02249-9_32

Download citation

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02249-9_32

Published : 28 May 2017

Publisher Name : Springer, Cham

Print ISBN : 978-3-319-02248-2

Online ISBN : 978-3-319-02249-9

eBook Packages : Education Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Module Education

Share this entry

Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content:

Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article.

Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative

• Publish with us

Policies and ethics

• Find a journal
• Track your research

Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer.

To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to  upgrade your browser .

Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link.

• We're Hiring!
• Help Center

IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND EDUCATION: A CHALLENGE TO NATIONAL IDENTITY

2021, Habibia Islamicus

This paper aims at how the roots of national vernaculars and cultures directly strengthen the psychological and historical research. This is an internal and external study of history from another point of view, so the educational aspect is based on knowledge of the national culture. It is also a link between reading and writing skills in national culture, which is a typical rule for any nation.

Related Papers

Birgit Brock-Utne

Encyclopedia of Language and Education: Language Policy and Political Issues in Education, 2nd edition

David Block

claire kramsch

With the increased fragmentation of people and capital around the globe, and the increased connectivity brought about by the deterritorialized social networks, it has become more difficult to conceive of culture in foreign language study without falling into reductionist stereotypes or tourist representations of foreign reality. While linguists have linked culture to discourse and ways of thinking, foreign language educators have not really started to confront the global realities with which they are preparing their students to engage. It is no longer sufficient to teach the L2 of some national monolingual native speaker attached to a homogenous national C2 culture. The target has now become the multilingual multicultural speaker who knows how to “operate between languages” (MLA, 2007) and navigate between various cultures. But whose languages and whose cultures? Culture today has been reframed as historicity and subjectivity (Hanks, 2000). This article will examine the historical a...

International Journal of English Linguistics

Nigar Veliyeva

Harry K Kuchah

This version is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. See http://opus.bath.ac.uk/ for usage policies. Please scroll down to view the document.

Elena Tikhonova , Galina Khorokhorina

Modern research and teaching of writing should be taken into account due to its important role in the process of cross-cultural communication. Cross-cultural communication in writing involves individual and collective identification with the phenomena of culture and cultural attitudes in the written texts of different styles and genres. Under the cross-cultural communication we understand the interaction of at least two communication partners belonging to different cultural societies. In a written communication channel the circle of communicants is unlimited. Therefore, in the process of production the rules of communication and behavior are being rendered through the interaction of different national consciousness. In order to study the mechanisms of the references' implementation of linguistic phenomena to the concepts of culture, there should be conducted a discursive analysis of written texts of certain styles and genres. Besides, it should be provided with criteria for cultural conditioning of language use, as well as socio-cultural settings of texts based on the ratio of the universal and nationally-specific languages. Among the parameters of international cooperation of communicants and the style-forming role, along with their individual, social and activity-related characteristics, are also – according to the modern theory of the style – functional-communicative area in which the relevant text is produced and perceived, the kind of attitude of the subject of speech to the communication partner, and relationship to the means of expression – the language. The number and the content of highlighted parameters are not the same in different authors' texts and in different cultures. Awareness of culture, its reinterpretation is fixed by the knowledge of modern realities, by the correct verbal behavior and possession of cultural contexts of their written implementation. Language system includes the part of speech units, which reflect the facts of national culture. From to methodical perspective, the revealed features allow to develop the students' ability of cultural and linguistic introspection, to teach the culture of writing. The research of cultural identity of essays gives us the opportunity to consider the ratio of the values of linguistic units with the concepts of universal and national cultures., the circle of communicants, a discursive analysis, international cooperation of communicants, reinterpretation of culture, verbal behavior, cultural context, cultural and linguistic introspection, culture of writing, concepts of universal and national cultures.

… Coleman, Jamilya Gulyamova and Andrew …

Hywel Coleman

EDULEARN16 Proceedings

Ingrid Mosquera Gende

Christina Higgins , Bal Krishna Sharma

This chapter examines how late modernity encourages new approaches to language education as a result of increased degrees of mobility, transnationalism, and neoliberalism. As many societies become detraditionalized, links between languages, cultures, and places are no longer in reciprocal relationships. Instead, the learning and teaching of languages is increasingly related to diasporic affiliations, intercultural identities, global cosmopolitanism, and translingual practices, all of which challenge modernist visions of language. Research reveals that language learners who are embedded in transnational and diasporic flows often invest in language practices that are not conventionally valued in the realm of education, including language associated with popular culture and truncated communicative repertoires, rather than national, standardized varieties of languages. Heritage language learners contest monolithic representations of their heritage languages as located in their parents’ or grandparents’ countries of origin, and learners of English as an international language who study in center nations challenge native-speaker norms. On the other hand, Indigenous language educators and learners express a strong attachment to place as a means of self-preservation and local epistemologies in the face of globalization. The chapter ends with a brief discussion of neoliberalism in language education, noting that despite the potential emancipatory nature of late modernity, flows are still characterized by inequities since they are still governed by the Global North and enacted in ways that perpetuate center-periphery disparities reminiscent of earlier periods of modernity.

Education Review // Reseñas Educativas

Brian D Seilstad

RELATED TOPICS

•   We're Hiring!
•   Help Center
• Find new research papers in:
• Health Sciences
• Earth Sciences
• Cognitive Science
• Mathematics
• Computer Science
• Academia ©2024