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The ‘Outer Circle’ as a role model for the ‘Expanding Circle’

Learning lessons on English worldwide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2011

Kanavillil Rajagopalan
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The post-World War II emergence of the linguistic phenomenon called ‘World English’ has given rise to seemingly endless discussion and much speculation among scholars and the lay public alike. The topics of discussion range from horrified exclamations at the mysterious apparition (like Horatio's ‘Look my Lord it comes! It beckons you to go with it, as if it some impartment did desire’, in Shakespeare's Hamlet), to what exactly we should call it or how at all should we otherwise identify it or make it identify itself (as in ‘Stay, speak, speak, I charge thee speak!’) and, finally to an attitude of familiarity breeding – for a change – conviviality and comfort (as in the somewhat resigned ‘Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness’).

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English Today , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 58 - 63
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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