In and Out of English: For Better, For Worse?

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In and Out of English: For Better, For Worse?

reviewed by Gail E. Wolfe - 2006

Title: In and Out of English: For Better, For Worse?
Author(s): Gunilla Anderman and Margaret Rogers (Eds.)
Publisher: Multilingual Matters, Clevedon
ISBN: 1853597872, Pages: 303, Year: 2005
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Where languages collide, creative language play abounds. As an American national and avid Francophile studying in France in the mid-1990s, I witnessed firsthand the generative potential of the interplay between French and English. The phrase je dois speeder (“I need to hurry”), uttered casually by a French teenager to his grandfather, immediately comes to mind as an exemplar of the language play that I saw and heard throughout my sojourn in France. In this particular instance, the linguistic jeu consisted in transforming the English noun speed into a French infinitive through the addition of the suffix –er. While playful and imaginative in the microcosm of interpersonal interaction, the interplay of French and English takes on a weightier significance when considered within the broader economic, political, and sociocultural context of an increasingly globalized world. In its growing capacity as a global lingua franca, what impact does English have on the languages... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 108 Number 8, 2006, p. 1603-1606
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 12202, Date Accessed: 4/16/2021 6:58:57 AM

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Gail Wolfe Washington University in Saint Louis E-mail Author GAIL E. WOLFE is a doctoral student in the Department of Education at Washington University in Saint Louis. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Gail earned a Master�s degree in French from Penn State and taught French and Spanish for three years at the secondary level. The focus of Gail�s Ph.D. coursework is threefold, encompassing issues in urban education, educational policy, and women and gender studies.

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