Publications

Publication details [#56855]

Buripakdi, Adcharawan. 2012. On professional writing: Thai writers' views on their English. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 22 (2) : 245–264.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | language dominance | language status | language variety | writing, L2-acquisition of

Language as a subject

English | English, Thai

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study of Thai professional writers' views of their Thai versus Standard English use, elucidates particularized English' ideological and political status, and shows how English use in Thailand is embedded in language hierarchy and internal colonization.