Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 World Englishes: An Introduction
- Part I The Making of Englishes
- Part II World Englishes Old and New
- Part III Linguistics and World Englishes
- 14 The Global Growth of English at the Grassroots
- 15 Beyond English as a Second or Foreign Language: Local Uses and the Cultural Politics of Identification
- 16 World Englishes in Cyberspace
- 17 World Englishes and Their Dialect Roots
- 18 Lexicography and World Englishes
- 19 The Relevance of World Englishes for Variationist Sociolinguistics
- 20 Multilingualism and the World Englishes
- 21 Unearthing the Diachrony of World Englishes
- 22 Corpus-Based Approaches to World Englishes
- 23 World Englishes from the Perspective of Dialect Typology
- 24 Language Acquisition and World Englishes
- Part IV Current Challenges
- Index
- References
15 - Beyond English as a Second or Foreign Language: Local Uses and the Cultural Politics of Identification
from Part III - Linguistics and World Englishes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2019
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 World Englishes: An Introduction
- Part I The Making of Englishes
- Part II World Englishes Old and New
- Part III Linguistics and World Englishes
- 14 The Global Growth of English at the Grassroots
- 15 Beyond English as a Second or Foreign Language: Local Uses and the Cultural Politics of Identification
- 16 World Englishes in Cyberspace
- 17 World Englishes and Their Dialect Roots
- 18 Lexicography and World Englishes
- 19 The Relevance of World Englishes for Variationist Sociolinguistics
- 20 Multilingualism and the World Englishes
- 21 Unearthing the Diachrony of World Englishes
- 22 Corpus-Based Approaches to World Englishes
- 23 World Englishes from the Perspective of Dialect Typology
- 24 Language Acquisition and World Englishes
- Part IV Current Challenges
- Index
- References
Summary
We explore how English is implicated in local language practices in the Netherlands, where English has limited official status, and in Japan, where it has no significant role in transactional communication at all. English in these contexts has typically been constructed as a “foreign” or “international” language, precluding consideration of the increasingly complex and multifarious ways it is mobilized for local interpersonal functions and the performance of identity. We present two specific analytic examples from the mediascapes of the two countries. Sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic analyses of our data show how English is tied up with the construction of the self and the other in different, profound, and sometimes unexpected ways. Although the prevailing English-language ideologies are almost polar opposites – the Japanese are typically constructed in the Japanese national imagination as “English-incompetent,” in contrast with the broad “English-knowing” identity in the Netherlands – in both contexts the use of English as a global linguistic resource creates new semiotic opportunities for social actors to negotiate and revise their identities and strategically construct the local.
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