36.3389, Books: English Across Borders: Bohmann (2025)

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Subject: 36.3389, Books: English Across Borders: Bohmann (2025)

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Date: 05-Nov-2025
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: English Across Borders: Bohmann (2025)


Title: English Across Borders
Subtitle: A Reflexive Approach to Anglophone Migrants’ Repertoires
Series Title: Varieties of English Around the World   G72
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/veaw.g72

Author(s): Axel Bohmann

eBook ISBN:  9789027244390 Pages:  256 Price: Europe EURO 130.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244390 Pages:  256 Price: U.K. £ 109.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244390 Pages:  256 Price: U.S. $ 169.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027228567 Pages:  256 Price: Europe EURO 130.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027228567 Pages:  256 Price: Europe EURO 137.80
Hardback ISBN:  9789027228567 Pages:  256 Price: U.K. £ 109.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027228567 Pages:  256 Price: U.S. $ 169.00

Abstract:

This book presents an account of English in the communicative
repertoires of anglophone West-Africans living in Southwestern
Germany. Adopting an ethnographically grounded perspective, it
analyzes how participants perceive and utilize English as well as
other linguistic resources at their disposal in an environment where
linguistic competence is routinely under scrutiny. The book traces how
linguistic practices participate in the construction of socially
meaningful spaces and images of personhood and how discourse about
language enables participants to position themselves in relation to
these constructions. In the process, notions of languages and
varieties themselves are used in surprising and sometimes conflicting
ways. While these are at odds with descriptive linguistic terminology,
the book takes them seriously as expressing local understandings of
the relationship among ways of speaking and social positions. At the
theoretical level, the book advances a shift in World Englishes
research towards a reflexive approach grounded in linguistic
anthropological perspectives.

Written In: English (eng)



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