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Everyone Is Here Now + Lingua Franca
EVERYONE IS HERE & ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA
This unit has a twofold purpose: We investigate the UK as a multicultural and multifaceted society undergoing many changes. Linked to this, we learn about the role the English language has played over time, how it has been linked to power and anglophone identity.
FOCUS
-Race as a construct
-Whiteness and white privilege in the UK
-Post-multicultural literature in contemporary Britain.
-Denmark and Great Britain as ‘white’ societies.
-Systemic racism in UK institutions (labour market, law, education, policing, …)
-The Windrush Generation
-Whiteness Analysis
-What is a ‘global language’; what is a ‘lingua franca’?
-Linguistic imperialism
-Kachru’s three circles model
-the role of English in the European parliament/the European Union
-benefits and challenges of English as a lingua franca
-typical features of ‘global’ English
TERMINOLOGY
(invisible forms of) whiteness and racism, white privilege, race, structural/systemic and overt/coded/closet racism, social class in the UK, Denmark’s/UK’s history of immigration, colour blindness, un/marked bodies, un/marked norms, othering, ascribed identities, assimilation, un/belonging, stop and search, migration/immigration, national narrative, homogeneous / multicultural / multicultural society, dominant, racialization, acts of othering, discourse, wokeness, The Windrush Generation
white privilege, Brexit, accent, dialect, lingua franca, global language, international language, inner/middle/outer circle, ELF, prescriptionism, non-/standard English, received pronunciation (RP), intelligible pronunciation, native- vs non-native speaker, contact language, code switching, language awareness, MLE, stress patterns, pitch, Cockney English, ethnolect, sociolect, language variety
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