Korean Englishes in Transnational Contexts

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jenks, Christopher J. (Editor), Lee, Jerry Won (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Applied linguistics.; Languages.; Language and languages.; Sociolinguistics.; English language.; Linguistic change.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319597881
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59788-1
• Physical Description: XV, 242 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.

This book challenges the dominant tendency in world Englishes scholarship to rely on the 'nation' as a static spatial entity and reliable analytic category. Using the transnational Korean context as a case in point, the authors analyse how the practices and ideologies of the English langua...