Emergent lingua francas and world orders [electronic resource] : the politics and place of English as a world language / Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge studies in sociolinguistics ; 1.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2009.Description: xvi, 287 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780203866566 (e-book : PDF)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-276) and index.
1. Emergent lingua francas and world orders -- 2. A model of evolving world orders and lingua francas -- 3. Liminality -- 4. The last liminal period : emergent Arabic in the Middle Ages -- 5. Three phases of liminality -- 6. Embracing liminality : a case study of Singapore -- 7. A case study of the Peoples' Republic of China -- 8. A case study of Southern Min language -- 9. The place of English in the world today.
Also available in print edition.
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