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Publication details [#32574]

Pennycook, Alastair. 2003. Global Englishes, Rip Slyme, and performativity. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7 (4) : 513–533.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | language of wider communication | performativity | popular culture | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

1360-6441

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper argues that in the sociolinguistics of world Englishes, one needs a critical understanding of globalization, a focus on popular cultural flows, and a way of taking up performance and performativity in relationship to identity and culture.