As You Like It
The Future of the English Language
This work examines the implications of current trends in the English Language for policy agendas. Run in association with Cambridge Assessment, and ESOL Examinations at the University of Cambridge, it will identify not only areas in which policy makers will have to change to meet the challenges posed by the emergence of variants of English - Englishes - but also how government and others can work with providers to take advantage of the many opportunites that 'Englishes' present...
Bismarck, Geertz, Bradwell ... and Sam Jones (from Sex and the City)
at 2:26pm on Thursday, 29th March 2007
As You Like It has been reviewed by Salon.com. You can read the review here.
It begins: 'Any essay on the globalization of the English language that includes references to Otto von Bismarck, open-source advocate Eric Raymond, U.K. reality TV star Shilpa Shetty, Clifford Geertz, "Sex and the City" and Chinua Achebe is an essay that one should pay attention to. And so it is with the 118-page 'As You Like It: Catching Up in an Age of Global English' by Samuel Jones and Peter Bradwell, writing for the U.K. think tank Demos.'
It begins: 'Any essay on the globalization of the English language that includes references to Otto von Bismarck, open-source advocate Eric Raymond, U.K. reality TV star Shilpa Shetty, Clifford Geertz, "Sex and the City" and Chinua Achebe is an essay that one should pay attention to. And so it is with the 118-page 'As You Like It: Catching Up in an Age of Global English' by Samuel Jones and Peter Bradwell, writing for the U.K. think tank Demos.'
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