De-Hegemonizing Language Standards

A. Parakrama

Palgrave Macmillan, 1995

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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.

ISBN-13
9780333616345
ISBN-10
0333616340
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1995
Publication date
1995-10-06
Pages
216
Dimensions
220x148x30
Weight
468