Language Policy and Political Economy English in a Global Context

Thomas Ricento is Professor and Research Chair at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has published widely in the field of language policy and on the politics of language in North America. He was a Fulbright Professor in Colombia (1989) and Costa Rica (2000), and a visiting professor at universities in Chile, Germany, Spain, , and Switzerland. He was Director of English Language Programs at the Japan Center for Michigan Universities, Hikone, Japan from 1989-1991.

Introduction: Language Policy and Political Economy
Thomas Ricento

Part I: Political Theory and Political Economy in Language Policy Research on English as a Global Language

1. Political Economy and English as a "Global" Language
Thomas Ricento

2. Global English and the Limits of Liberalism: Confronting Global Capitalism and Challenges to the Nation-State
Peter Ives

3. Language Policy and Global Political Economy
Jeff Bale

4. Language, Hegemony, and Economy
Glyn Williams

Part II: Political Economy and Global English: Case Studies

5. The Economics of English in Europe
François Grin

6. Language Education, Economic Development, and Participation in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Paul Bruthiaux

7. Neoliberalism as Language Policy
Ingrid Piller and Jinhyun Cho

8. Why English Dominates the Central Economy: An Economic Perspective on "Elite Closure" and South African Language Policy
Laurence Wright

9. Narratives of Globalization in Language Politics in India
Selma Sonntag

Part III: Global English, Development, and Democracy

10. The Ground Floor of the World: On the Socioeconomic Consequences of Linguistic Globalization
Philippe Van Parijs

11. Linguistic Diversity and Global English: The Pushmi-Pullyu of Language Policy and Political Economy
Suzanne Romaine

12. "English," the Global Lingua Franca?
Thomas Ricento

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