A Critique of the American Accent and Linguistic Imperialism
Linguistic imperialism has been widespread throughout the world, especially when English has become the dominant has brought about the abundance of a lot of training programmes and websites such as www.americanaccent.com.This essay analyses this website from the perspectives of micro- and macro-indexicalities and presents a critique of the linguistic imperialism.Moreover, the article gives suggestions as to how to take advantage of the language resources for our best benefit and at the same time how to resist the linguistic hegemony in our teaching and learning of the English language.
作 者： 康建刚 作者单位： 华北电力大学外国语学院,北京,102206 刊 名： 中国电力教育 英文刊名： CHINA ELECTRIC POWER EDUCATION 年，卷(期)： 2007 ""(10) 分类号： H3 关键词： Americanaccent indexicalities linguistic imperialism