{"product_id":"global-english-and-political-economy-9781138811126","title":"Global English and Political Economy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, John O'Regan examines the role of political economy in the worldwide spread of English and traces the origins and development of the dominance of English to the endless accumulation of capital in a capitalist world-system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO'Regan combines Marxist perspectives of capital accumulation with world-systems analysis, international political economy, and studies of imperialism and empire to present a historical account of the free riding' of English upon the global capital networks of the capitalist world-system. Relevant disciplinary perspectives on global English are examined in this light, including superdiversity, translanguaging, translingual practice, trans-spatiality, language commodification, World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca. \u003ci\u003eGlobal English and Political Economy \u003c\/i\u003epresents an original historical and interdisciplinary interpretation of the global ascent of English, while also raising important theoretical and practical questions for perspectiv\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this book, John O’Regan has mastered the art of engaging readers with his elegant and sharp scholarship, however complex the subject matter may be. He treats seriously and passionately the long overdue need to examine and document the political economic dimension of language, specifically in relation to the historical global dominance of English. In so doing, O’Regan challenges established and promoted bodies of work by questioning normative and in-fashion ideologies and thinking, seeing beyond oft-celebrated sentiments and positions in order to deliver a work that is not only thought-provoking, but also of great merit and intellectual weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhan Le Ha\u003c\/strong\u003e, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA careful, comprehensive and critical study of the intertwined tentacles of English and capitalism. John O’Regan presents here the big and the long picture of the political economy of English, showing how the global dominance of English and the development of the capitalist world-system cannot be usefully considered in isolation. A study of real importance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlastair Pennycook,\u003c\/strong\u003e University of Technology Sydney, Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn conclusion, with this seminal work on the historical and ongoing alliance of capitalism and a normative English in helping one another, O’Regan has indeed filled in a crucial ‘number of the historical and economic lacunae which have existed...in applied linguistic and sociolinguistic accounts of the spread of English as a global language’ (p. 2) not only for him as he states, but also importantly for many of us who have been calling out capitalism for what it\u003cbr\u003ehas been doing to us for the past several centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristian W. Chun\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, Applied Linguistics 2021: 1–4\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeply insightful and intellectually stimulating, O’Regan’s book will be essential reading for scholars and students of applied linguistics, World Englishes, and associated fields of study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePamoda M. Jayaweera\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLanguage in Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe political economy of English in a capitalist world-system\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglish and the political economy of informal empire, 1688\u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003e1850\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe political economy of global English, 1850\u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003e1914\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe political economy of global English, 1918\u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003e1979\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCapital-centric English and the modern world-system, 1979\u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003e2008\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe decline of the US world-hegemony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuperdiverse translingualism, commodification and trans-spatial resistances\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe demise of capitalism and the end of the hegemony of English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eReferences\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019527946583,"sku":"9781138811126","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138811126.jpg?v=1750780536","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-english-and-political-economy-9781138811126","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}