ABSTRACT

By taking Malaysia as a case in point, this paper explores ideological constructions regarding the position of the English language that are created as a result of collisions between prioritizing nationalist and realizing globalization agendas. Through a discourse analysis of newspaper texts across two of Malaysia’s press, The Star and New Straits Times, the discussion will show how these newspaper items represent certain world-views on ‘measures’ of the standardization of the English language. It is argued that they illuminate some of the many issues that stage dialogues between local/global continuities and disjunctures on how English language ‘should’ be positioned within the changing and challenging landscape of multilingualism and ‘global English.’ This article also attempts to extend the debate further to show examples of postcolonial ‘revisions’ to displace these points, highlighting alternative voices to articulate colonial ‘visions’ of the globalization of English.

摘要

本文以马来西亚为例，探讨了由于优先民族主义和实现全球化议程之间的冲突而产生的关于英语地位的意识形态建构。通过对马来西亚两家媒体《星报》和《新海峡时报》的报纸文本的话语分析，讨论将展示这些报纸项目如何代表有关英语标准化“措施”的某些世界观。有人认为，它们阐明了在本地/全球连续性和脱节之间进行对话的许多问题中的一些问题，即英语“应该”如何在多语言和“全球英语”不断变化和充满挑战的环境中定位。本文还试图进一步扩展辩论，以展示后殖民“修改”的例子来取代这些观点，强调替代的声音来表达英语全球化的殖民“愿景”。