Aug 2026· World Englishes· 1 citation· 30 references
Abstract
In this afterword, I focus on two key contributions that this special issue provides for ongoing discussions of linguistic justice in relation to the internationalization of English. The first is its attempt to address previously reductionist accounts of linguistic justice in political theory, which construct languages only in relation to their communicative value, thus stripping them of their identity functions. This contributes in turn to an often naive valorization of English as the language of wider international communication, and its apparent centrality to the expansion of deliberative democracy worldwide, alongside a problematic construction of multilingualism as an obstacle to such processes. The second relates to the increasing need to explore the interstices between linguistic racism and linguistic justice, not only through the lens of raciolinguistics but also related work in language ideologies and the social physcology of race/ism and discourse.
This concluding essay proposes a reflection on the themes treated in the preceding essays from a twofold perspective: that of the author of a theoretical book that distinguishes three fundamentally distinct senses of linguistic justice and that of the chair of a Council for Multilingualism set up by the regional gove...
This opening article of the special issue “English worldwide and linguistic justice” starts from the premise that more interdisciplinary work is needed that bridges sociolinguistic research with linguistic justice theories to provide deeper, more nuanced understandings of the position and functions of English around...
Josep Soler, T. Ricento· World Englishes· 0 citations
Three decades after Kachru's characterization of English as a source of both “agony and ecstasy,” debates about its global spread remain ambivalent. Despite significant advances in world Englishes scholarship, celebratory and critical stances toward English continue to coexist, sharpened by the political polarization...
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Pragmatics represents a vital extension of modern linguistics, transcending the formal structural boundaries of the sentence to enter the realm of live communication among language users. The significance of this field lies in its ability to explain how discourse meets the needs of human interaction, conveying the spea...
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