Tony Crowley's introductory material breaks new ground in rescuing these texts from the academic backwater of the 'history of the language' and in reasserting the central role of language in history.
Tony Crowley's introductory material breaks new ground in rescuing these texts from the academic backwater of the 'history of the language' and in reasserting the central role of language in history.
BAAL Book Prize Winner 1996 In this award winning book Deborah Cameron takes a serious look at popular attitudes towards language and examines the practices by which people attempt to regulate its use.
The lingua franca of the Indo-Pakistani people is one language, claims Khan, called Hindi when written in Nagari and Urdu when written in Arabic.
English and the Discourses of Colonialism opens with the British departure from Hong Kong marking the end of British colonialism.
English and the Discourses of Colonialism opens with the British departure from Hong Kong marking the end of British colonialism.
Covering a three hundred-year period from Locke to the present, this book demonstrates the processes by which particular forms of language (and those that use them) are validated as correct and proper and which forms are evaluated as wrong ...
Tony Crowley provides a new agenda for language study; one which acknowledges the fact that writing about history has always been determined by the historical context, and by issues of race, class and gender.