English language and an inclusive Malaysia

This article seeks to discuss the pressures and forces which define the Malaysian English language debate and suggests that a new social compact involving a renewed commitment to democracy and social justice in Malaysia may be the necessary social context needed to address the increasingly unstabl...

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Main Author:	Campbell, James
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12912/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12912/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12912/1/27613-85322-2-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-129122019-05-13T11:06:43Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12912/ English language and an inclusive Malaysia Campbell, James This article seeks to discuss the pressures and forces which define the Malaysian English language debate and suggests that a new social compact involving a renewed commitment to democracy and social justice in Malaysia may be the necessary social context needed to address the increasingly unstable tension between nationalist language concerns and the pressures of globalization. In this article we shall argue that the way to avoid the English language debate from getting stuck oscillating between the Scylla and the Charybdis of nationalist and globalist discourses is to try to move the argument around language to one informed by progressive political economy and democratic theory. This also has the advantage of potentially undermining the politics of social division and cleavage which can derail progressive initiatives such as improvement of English in plural societies such as Malaysia. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12912/1/27613-85322-2-PB.pdf Campbell, James (2018) English language and an inclusive Malaysia. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 24 (3). pp. 206-219. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1125
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description	This article seeks to discuss the pressures and forces which define the Malaysian English language debate and suggests that a new social compact involving a renewed commitment to democracy and social justice in Malaysia may be the necessary social context needed to address the increasingly unstable tension between nationalist language concerns and the pressures of globalization. In this article we shall argue that the way to avoid the English language debate from getting stuck oscillating between the Scylla and the Charybdis of nationalist and globalist discourses is to try to move the argument around language to one informed by progressive political economy and democratic theory. This also has the advantage of potentially undermining the politics of social division and cleavage which can derail progressive initiatives such as improvement of English in plural societies such as Malaysia.
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author	Campbell, James
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title	English language and an inclusive Malaysia
title_short	English language and an inclusive Malaysia
title_full	English language and an inclusive Malaysia
title_fullStr	English language and an inclusive Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	English language and an inclusive Malaysia
title_sort	english language and an inclusive malaysia
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2018
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12912/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12912/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12912/1/27613-85322-2-PB.pdf
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English language and an inclusive Malaysia

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