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Canagarajah, A. Suresh – College Composition and Communication, 2006
Contesting the monolingualist assumptions in composition, this article identifies textual and pedagogical spaces for World Englishes in academic writing. It presents code meshing as a strategy for merging local varieties with Standard Written English in a move toward gradually pluralizing academic writing and developing multilingual competence for…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Morphemes, English (Second Language), Language Variation
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Canagarajah, A. Suresh – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2007
Global English is under contestation. Although some consider lingua franca English (LFE) as a neutral medium or code that does not belong to any specific culture or nationality, others see the deceptive nature of this linguistic globalization. Along with Spring (2007/this issue), they see global English as embodying partisan interests and values.…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Morphemes, Multilingualism, Global Approach