Entangled Englishes

Entangled Englishes offers an innovative approach to understanding the ongoing globalization of English by examining it in relation to its multiple, complex, and oftentimes unexpected entanglements. The book explores entangled narratives of English that are imprinted and in circulation in various global contexts. The chapters examine the globalization of English as a phenomenon that is invariably entangled with and through various languages; cultural forms such as ideological commitments and social norms,;or even (im)material objects such as food, signage, and attire. Offering a unique range of perspectives from leading scholars worldwide, this innovative volume presents exciting new research directions for anyone interested in the historical and contemporary complexities of language. This text is key reading for students and researchers of World Englishes, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, and linguistic anthropology.

Jerry Won Lee is a professor of applied linguistics at the University of California, Irvine. His books include Language as Hope, co-authored with Daniel N. Silva (2024) and Locating Translingualism (2022), winner of the 2024 American Association for Applied Linguistics Book Award. Sofia Rüdiger is postdoctoral researcher in English linguistics at the University of Bayreuth. She is author of Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English (2019) and editor of Discourse Markers and World Englishes (2021) and Global and Local Perspectives on Language Contact (2024).

Foreword Alastair Pennycook Introduction: Entangled Englishes Jerry Won Lee and Sofia Rüdiger I. Entanglements of Sociopolitics 1 Citizen sociolinguists on the entanglements between Pidgin and English in social media spaces Christina Higgins and Kristen Urada 2 Rap in the local-global interface: Social and political activism in South Asia Shaila Sultana and Bal Krishna Sharma 3 Word-sound-power: Entanglements of global Patwa in India Jaspal Naveel Singh 4 Entanglements within COVID-19 Linguistic Landscapes in Kyoto, Japan Yumi Matsumoto and Ivan Jin II. Entanglements of Race 5 An entangled unease: Intrusive Englishes and allyship in Black feminism Daniel N. Silva 6 "No English, no English": Raciolinguistic entanglements in Czechia Stephanie Rudwick 7 Re-/Imagining racialized entanglements of Englishes and peoples: A call for a quantum ethos Patriann Smith III. Entanglements of Practice 8 Entangled bodies, entangled ideologies: The case of Bikram yoga practitioners Kellie Gonçalves 9 Digital assemblages and their English entanglements: Digital design, voice assistant use and smartphone setting choices of translingual speakers in Berlin Didem Leblebici and Britta Schneider 10 English online/offline: Distinguishing material and materialist interpretations of entanglements Ron Darvin IV. Entanglements of Education 11 Entangling English teaching with content teaching: Reflections of an English language educator in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) context Keith Tong, Fay Chen, and Angel Lin 12 Educators' reflections in translingual classrooms: Entanglement of language, culture, and emotionality in Australia Ana Tankosic, Sender Dovchin, and Rhonda Oliver Index