2nd Edition

The Routledge Companion to English Studies

Edited By Constant Leung, Jo Lewkowicz Copyright 2024
422 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

422 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

422 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

English is now a global phenomenon no longer defined by fixed territorial, cultural and social functions. The Routledge Companion to English Studies provides an overview of this dynamic field of study, with this new edition focusing on English from an applied language perspective and taking account of interdisciplinary and decolonizing viewpoints. This companion considers historical... Read more

Introduction

 

I English in Disciplinary Studies

 

1. Betsy Rymes & Eunsun Lee - Communicative Repertoire

2. Kieran O’Halloran - Corpus Linguistics

3. Ruth Wodak - Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies

4. Lindsey W. Rowe - Digital Communication and Language and Literacy Practices in English and Languages Beyond English

5. John Flowerdew - Discourse Studies

6. Martin Dewey - Exploring English as a lingua franca

7. Martin P.J. Edwardes - Language and Cognition

8. Gordana Lalić-Krstin, Nadežda Silaški & Vincent Renner - Language Creativity

9. David Deterding - Phonetics and Phonology

10. Paul Prior - Semiotics, Semiosis, and Becoming

11. Andrew Carnie - Formal Syntax

12. Shakina Rajendram & Ofelia Garcia - Translanguaging: English Studies and Education

13. Andy Kirkpatrick & David Deterding - World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca

 

II English in Language Education

 

14. Xuesong (Andy) Gao - English as an additional language

15. Ian Cushing - English as a subject

16. David Bloome - Ethnography for English Studies

17. Sunny Hyon - Genre and English for Specific Purposes

18. Carolyn McKinney & Bonny Norton - Identity, Language, and Learning

19. Yvonne Foley - Literacies: The Story

20. Jim Cummins - Multilingualism in English Language Education

 

III English in the World

 

21. Carmen Helena Guerrero-Nieto - English-A global South Perspective: The case of a National Bilingualism Program in Colombia

22. Andrea Mattos & Leina Luca - English Teaching in Latin America: the case of Brazil

23. Tadeusz Sławek - English Studies in Eastern/ Central Europe: Breaking Up the Wall

24. Pinagali Sailaja - English as a Lingua Franca in a Post-colonial Setting: India

25. Mie Hiramoto & Gavin Furukawa - Language and Gender of English in Japan: Lost in Essentialism

26. Lionel Wee - Language Policy in Contemporary Settings

27. Alan Runcieman - The shifting conceptualisations of languages in professional interpreting: Community/Public-service interpreting in the Anglosphere

 

IV Commentaries

 

28. Betsy Rymes & Eunsun Lee - Transnational English, the Internet, and Raciolinguistic Judgement: How Does English Function in One’s Communicative Repertoire?

29. Vilma Huerta Cordova, Mario E. López-Gopar & Jorge Valtierra-Zamudio - Linguistic Imperialism, Native Speakerism, and Racism in the Teaching and Learning of English: The Case of Mexico

30. Daniel R. Isbell - Open Science: Implications for Applied Language Research

31. Nadiya Ivanenko - Words and word meanings

 

Index

Biography

Constant Leung is Professor of Educational Linguistics at King’s College London, UK.

Jo Lewkowicz is Advisor on Language Testing to Council for the Certification of Foreign Languages at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London, UK.