On under-coded english and linguistic accommodation

Tickoo, Asha (2015) On under-coded english and linguistic accommodation. Language and Language Teaching, 4 (1). pp. 1-7. ISSN 2277-307X

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Much that is said about the spread of English today speaks of English hegemony: the “ideology that glorifies the dominant language (or variety) and serves to stigmatize others” (Phillipson, 1999, p. 40; the addition in brackets is mine). But the contradictory and significantly more current truth is that the user of English as Foreign Language (EFL) is no longer his/her former disadvantaged and disenfranchised self. In adopting English for significant life-purposes, s/he has produced a distinctly under-coded version of English (representing formally much less than full meaning, UE for future reference) which is rapidly gaining acceptance as the most widely used World English (WE) variety.

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