This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike many studies on the pluralization of English, the volume assumes that inequalities and Englishes are inextricably linked and must be understood and theorized together.
Foreword; Arjuna Parakrama Introduction: From World Englishes to Unequal Englishes; Ruanni Tupas and Rani Rubdy PART I: APPROACHES TO UNEQUAL ENGLISHES 1. Inequalities of Englishes, English Speakers, and Languages: A Critical Perspective of Pluralist Approaches to English; Ryuko Kubota 2. Unequal Englishes, the Native Speaker, and Decolonization in TESOL; Rani Rubdy 3. Structures of Feeling in Unequal Englishes; Joseph Sung-Yul Park 4. Global English and Inequality: The Contested Ground of Linguistic Power; Peter Ives PART II: ENGLISHES IN NEXUSES OF POWER AND INEQUALITY 5. 'Just an Old Joke': Chinglish, Narrative and Linguistic Inequality in the Chinese English Classroom; Eric S. Henry 6. English in Japan: Indecisions, Inequalities and Practices of Relocalization; Glenn Toh 7. Performing Gayness and English in an Offshore Call Center Industry; Aileen O. Salonga PART III: ENGLISHES IN CHANGING MULTILINGUAL SPACES 8. Earning Capital in Hawai'i's Linguistic Landscape; Christina HigginS 9. Glocalization and the Spread of Unequal Englishes: Vernacular Signs in the Centre of Beijing; Lin Pan 10. Singlish Strikes Back in Singapore; Chua, Siew Kheng Catherine PART IV: ENGLISHES IN UNEQUAL LEARNING SPACES 11. Contesting the Raj's 'Divide and Rule' Policies: Linguistic Apartheid, Unequal Englishes, and the Postcolonial Framework; Vaidehi Ramanathan 12. Unequal Englishes in Imagined Intercultural Interactions; Phan Le Ha 13. Preparing Teachers for 'Unequal Englishes': The D-TEIL Experience in Cuba; Ian Martin and Brian Morgan
