| Status | 已發表Published |
| The impact of Braj B. Kachru's work on linguistics | |
| Moody, A. J. | |
| 2019-07-09 | |
| Source Publication | World Englishes
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| ISSN | 1467-971X |
| Pages | 336-337 |
| Abstract | The first Conference of the International Association of World Englishes (IAWE) that I attended was the meeting held at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign in November 1998. I didn't actually meet Prof. Braj Kachru until after the conference's closing ceremonies, but he had attended my paper presentation and, when we spoke, he encouraged me to submit the paper to World Englishes. This was not an extraordinary meeting with Prof. Kachru; most of the conference presenters, many of whom I'm still in touch with today, had a similar story of encouragement and support from Professor Kachru. Instead, Prof. Kachru's scholarly publications had their greatest impact on my thinking and research several years earlier, as a PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Kansas. I had entered graduate school at KU after having worked for two years as a ‘Foreign Expert’ teaching English in Beijing, China. The experience of living and working in China in the late 1980s was transformative, and I entered graduate school to earn the credentials that would allow me to build an academic career in Asia. But the graduate program I had entered was not, at that time, very internationally oriented and there was little guidance for a graduate student who was thinking about a job outside the United States. Unfortunately, the same could be said about how sociolinguistics was envisioned as an intellectual discipline at that time; topics such as multilingualism, language contact and code‐switching were of interest in the program, but they were really part of the ‘core’ of sociolinguistic inquiry, which was instead overly focused on monolingual dialectology and language variation. Textbook descriptions of international varieties of English tended to either follow the model of variation studies and describe varieties monolithically as sets of divergent features (Bailey & Görlach, 1982) or as a set of topically‐oriented studies of English functioning internationally (Cheshire, 1991). |
| Keyword | world Englishes Kachru sociolinguistics |
| URL | View the original |
| Language | 英語English |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 47372 |
| Document Type | Journal article |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Moody, A. J.. The impact of Braj B. Kachru's work on linguistics[J]. World Englishes, 2019, 336-337. |
| APA | Moody, A. J..(2019). The impact of Braj B. Kachru's work on linguistics. World Englishes, 336-337. |
| MLA | Moody, A. J.."The impact of Braj B. Kachru's work on linguistics".World Englishes (2019):336-337. |
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