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De-Hegemonizing Language Standards

Learning from (Post) Colonial Englishes about English

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Arjuna Parakrama

    1. University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvii
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  2. The Politics of Standardization and the ‘Special’ Problematic of (Post)Coloniality

    • Arjuna Parakrama
    Pages 1-40

  3. Towards a Broader Standard: The ‘Non-Standard’ as ‘Natural’ Resistance

    • Arjuna Parakrama
    Pages 41-83

  4. ‘Uneducated’ (Sri) Lankan English Speech: A Case Study and its Theoretical Implications

    • Arjuna Parakrama
    Pages 84-121

  5. Non-Standard Lankan English Writing: New Models and Old Modalities

    • Arjuna Parakrama
    Pages 122-173

  6. Attitudes to (Teaching) English: De-Hegemonizing Language in a Situation of Crisis

    • Arjuna Parakrama
    Pages 174-205

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 206-216
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This study first establishes the discriminatroy and elitist nature of standard languages and standardisation itself, considering as counter-example the case of Sri Lankan English as symptomatic of the 'other' or postcolonial Englishes. On the basis of this understanding of the standard, while at the same time, accepting the necessity of standards, however attenuated, the writer argues for the active broadening of the standard to include the greatest variety possible - privileging 'meaning' over other rules - and holds that this would in fact work towards extending the bounds of linguistic tolerance.

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  • University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

    Arjuna Parakrama

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