Towards an integrated approach to postcolonial and non‐postcolonial Englishes

• Published in: World Englishes Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 104 - 126
• Main Authors: BUSCHFELD, SARAH, KAUTZSCH, ALEXANDER
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2017
• Subjects: English as a second language; English language; Postcolonialism; Sociolinguistics; Speech communities; Namibia

ABSTRACT The categories ‘ESL’ and ‘EFL’ should not be seen as discrete as traditionally assumed but as located on a continuum. Since the traditional categorization as either foreign or second‐language English strongly depends on the historical and sociopolitical development of a territory, with post...