1st Edition

Entangled Englishes

Edited By Jerry Won Lee, Sofia Rüdiger Copyright 2025
254 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Entangled Englishes offers an innovative approach to understanding the ongoing globalization of English by examining it in relation to its multiple, complex, and oftentimes unexpected entanglements. The book explores entangled narratives of English that are imprinted and in circulation in various global contexts. The chapters examine the globalization of English as a phenomenon that is... Read more

Foreword

            Alastair Pennycook

 

            Introduction: Entangled Englishes

            Jerry Won Lee and Sofia Rüdiger

 

I. Entanglements of Sociopolitics

 

1          Citizen sociolinguists on the entanglements between Pidgin and English in social media spaces

Christina Higgins and Kristen Urada

 

2          Rap in the local-global interface: Social and political activism in South Asia

Shaila Sultana and Bal Krishna Sharma

 

3          Word-sound-power: Entanglements of global Patwa in India

Jaspal Naveel Singh

 

4          Entanglements within COVID-19 Linguistic Landscapes in Kyoto, Japan

Yumi Matsumoto and Ivan Jin

 

II. Entanglements of Race

 

5          An entangled unease: Intrusive Englishes and allyship in Black feminism

Daniel N. Silva

 

6          “No English, no English”: Raciolinguistic entanglements in Czechia

Stephanie Rudwick

 

7          Re-/Imagining racialized entanglements of Englishes and peoples: A call for a quantum ethos

Patriann Smith

 

III. Entanglements of Practice

 

8          Entangled bodies, entangled ideologies: The case of Bikram yoga practitioners

Kellie Gonçalves

 

9          Digital assemblages and their English entanglements: Digital design, voice assistant use and smartphone setting choices of translingual speakers in Berlin

            Didem Leblebici and Britta Schneider

 

10        English online/offline: Distinguishing material and materialist interpretations of entanglements

Ron Darvin

 

IV. Entanglements of Education

 

11        Entangling English teaching with content teaching: Reflections of an English language

educator in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) context

Keith Tong, Fay Chen, and Angel Lin

 

12        Educators’ reflections in translingual classrooms: Entanglement of language, culture, and emotionality in Australia

Ana Tankosić, Sender Dovchin, and Rhonda Oliver

 

Index

Biography

Jerry Won Lee is a professor of applied linguistics at the University of California, Irvine. His books include Language as Hope, co-authored with Daniel N. Silva (2024) and Locating Translingualism (2022), winner of the 2024 American Association for Applied Linguistics Book Award.

Sofia Rüdiger is postdoctoral researcher in English linguistics at the University of Bayreuth. She is author of Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English (2019) and editor of Discourse Markers and World Englishes (2021) and Global and Local Perspectives on Language Contact (2024).