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Publication details [#50951]

Friedrich, Patricia. 2009. World Englishes and Peace Sociolinguistics: Towards a common goal of linguistic understanding. In Hoffmann, Thomas and Lucia Siebers, eds. World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects. Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference. (Varieties of English Around the World G40). John Benjamins. pp. 407–414.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins

Annotation

In recent decades, peace has been studied as a transdisciplinary issue from the perspective of several disciplinary orientations which include Psychology, Education and more recently Linguistics. This article argues for the contributions of World Englishes and the budding field of Peace Sociolinguistics and describes them as critical to a better understanding of peace dynamics across many areas. Concepts from Peace Studies are used to describe linguistic relations both at the macro and the micro level. In this context, peace and language relate to each other in various ways which include the use of language to achieve a situation of peace, education for peace through language, and finally making peace with languages (such as English) by promoting their harmonizing functions.