Comments on: Ideologies of English in Asia https://languageonthemove.com/ideologies-of-english-in-asia/ Multilingualism, Intercultural communication, Consumerism, Globalization, Gender & Identity, Migration & Social Justice, Language & Tourism Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:39:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Paul Desailly https://languageonthemove.com/ideologies-of-english-in-asia/#comment-83782 Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:39:27 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=23611#comment-83782 Alexandra: The five contributions could each be summarized with a phrase that Brook Bolander uses to describe her own findings about the indexicality of English amongst Ismaili Muslim communities in Pakistan and Tajikistan: “ownership of English [is] polysemous”.

Polysemous usage much admired by this old codger, graduate cum laude from the University of Billiards, Poker & Pool, revolves around ’embellish’, recently defined in the Oxford dictionary as (a) to beautify, to adorn and (b) to heighten the narrative with fictitious additions.

Antonyms, n’est-ce pas?

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