Kachru's redeeming myth of world Englishes

Jonathan J. Webster

doi:10.1111/weng.12375

Kachru's redeeming myth of world Englishes

Jonathan J. Webster^*

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Michael Halliday once stated that all theories employ metaphors in order to express their essence, which might be restated as ‘every theory is a myth for what it is theorizing’. In his early work, Braj Kachru set out to creatively and critically ‘de-mythologize’ the English canon, and in its stead introduced the new metaphor of the ‘Three Circles’, and the innovative, and redeeming, myth of ‘world Englishes’, changing the history of English studies in the process.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	303-311
Journal	World Englishes
Volume	38
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12375
Publication status	Published - Mar 2019

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