The Construction of English

By John Gray

Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, English language, study and teaching, foreign speakers, Study and teaching, Globalization, English language, Foreign speakers

Description: "This book takes the view that ELT global coursebooks, in addition to being curriculum artefacts, are also highly wrought cultural artefacts which seek to make English mean in highly selective ways and it argues that the textual construction (and imaging) of English parallels the processes of commodity promotion more generally"--