Review
English Contact Languages and Rhetorics: Implications for U.S. English Composition
College Composition and Communication, Vol.59(1), pp.128-138
09/01/2007
Abstract
LuMing Mao The spread of English caused by colonization, slavery, and immigration has created multiple contact varieties of English; "Englishes," such as African American Vernacular English, Indian English, Philippine English, Caribbean Creole English, Hawaiian Pidgin, West African Pidgin English, Spanglish, and Tex-Mex, are the native or second languages of vastly more of the world's population than those few who speak a more mainstream variety of American or British English as a native language. To demonstrate the legitimacy of each English variety and to argue for and illustrate "concrete strategies for a pedagogy of inclusion" (14), the contributors use a variety of methods-for example, contrastive analysis of the contact variety of English with Standard English (Rickford on AAVE; Pratt Johnson on Jamaican Creole; Govardhan on Indian English), excerpts from students' journal entries (Hall Kells on Tex Mex), and statistics on program placement (de Klein on West African Pidgin).\n Mao's making of Chinese American rhetoric seems to be more of a personal and academic mission than a sociopolitical one.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- English Contact Languages and Rhetorics: Implications for U.S. English Composition
- Creators
- Carol Severino
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- College Composition and Communication, Vol.59(1), pp.128-138
- ISSN
- 0010-096X
- eISSN
- 1939-9006
- Publisher
- National Council of Teachers of English; Urbana
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2007
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; Rhetoric
- Record Identifier
- 9984398467402771
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