Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Glossary vi
4. Preface vii
5. 1. Images of World English: Writing English as an International Language 1
6. 2. The Representation of the Social in a Social Science: Methodology in Linguistics 17
7. 3. Ideological and Economic Crosscurrents of Empire 34
8. 4. The Contested Terrain of Colonial Language Policy 62
9. 5. Access Denied: Containing the Spread of English 86
10. 6. The Becoming of a World Language 107
11. 7. Macroacquisition: Bilingual Speech Communities and Language Change 126
12. 8. The Macroacquisition of English: New Representations in the Language 149
13. 9. The) World (of) English: Englishes in Convergence 174
14. 10. Decentering English Applied Linguistics 182
15. Appendices 191
16. References 196
17. Index 213