Aug 2026· World Englishes· 0 citations· 2 references
Abstract
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 government of the capital of the European Union. How English and its standard varieties fare in terms of linguistic justice as fair cooperation, equality of opportunities and parity of esteem varies greatly depending on the context, for example, ex‐colonial countries, post‐Brexit Europe and a city that has two official languages with English not one of them. Whatever the context, an inequality between languages is not necessarily a linguistic injustice, and a linguistic injustice can be a collateral damage justified by the pursuit of a more comprehensive conception of social justice.
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 languag...
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...
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
This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexic...
This essay reflects on the problems of justice and translation posed by the volume Modern Arab Thought: A Reader (forthcoming), coedited with Idriss Jebari. This collection of translated texts and commentaries was conceived as a practical pedagogical tool to address the scarcity of translated sources in modern Arab i...
Hannah Scott Deuchar· Comparative Literature· 0 citations
This paper starts from the premise that discussing fidelity in the translation of political discourse remains incomplete unless we first ask: fidelity to which ideology? Political texts are not written in a vacuum, nor does the translator who conveys them operate in a vacuum. The first section reviews the concept of id...
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