The Personal Interview

Acknowledgements 1. The World in English Introduction: from Hurt Waldheim to Johnny Clegg The natural, neutral and beneficial spread of English The social, cultural and political contexts of English The worldliness of English Conclusion 2. Discourse and Dependency in a Shifting World Introduction: rethinking internationalism Development, aid and modernization Dependency and imperialism Culture, discourse, difference and disjuncture Criket, English and cultural politics 3. English and Colonialism: Origins of a Discourse Introduction: the complexities of colonialism Anglicism and Orientalism: two sides of the colonial coin English for the few: colonial education policies in Malaya Anglicism and English studies Conclusion 4. Spreading the Word/Disciplining the Language Introduction: anti-nomadic disciplines The disciplining of linguistics The disciplining of applied linguistics The spreading and disciplining of discourse of EIL 5. ELT From Development Aid to Global Commodity From cultural propaganda to global business: The British Council 'The West is better...': discourses of ELT English Language Teaching practices as cultural practices Conclusion: the compass of discourse 6. The Worldliness of English in Malaysia Contexts Cultural politics after independence Malay nationalism and English English, class and ethnicity English adn Islam English and the media The debates continue 7. The Worldliness of English in Singapore English as a useful language The making of Singapore Singapore English Pragmatism, multiracialism and meritocratism Pragmatic, multiracial and meritocratic English Conclusion 8. Writing Back: The Appropriation of English Postcolonial English Re-presenting postcolonial worlds Worldy texts in a worldly language Decentered voices: writing in Malaysia Centered voices: writing in Singapore From aestheticism to yuppyism: the new writing in Singapore From writing back to teaching back 9. Towards a Critical Pedagogy for Teaching English as a Worldly Language Critical pedagogies Discourse, language and subjectivity Insurgent knowledges, the classroom and the world References Index

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The cultural politics of English as an international language

Spirituality at work: a conceptualization and measure

This article examines relationships between media content, public opinion, and foreign policy in the United States and the United Kingdom. The investigation proceeds in two stages. First, an agenda-setting analysis demonstrates a strong connection between the salience of foreign affairs in the media and the salience of foreign affairs for the public. Second, two potential effects of varying issue salience on foreign policymaking are examined:(1) issue priming and (2) policymakers’ reactions to issue salience. Analyses rely on a combination of U.S. and U.K. commercial polling data and the American National Election Study. Results point to the importance of mass media and issue salience in the relationship between public opinion and foreign policy. There is a considerable body of work in the United States on both the relationship between public opinion and foreign policy and on the nature of public opinion on foreign affairs. While early research suggested that the effects of public opinion on foreign policy were slight, recent studies indicate that public opinion often has a measurable impact on U.S. foreign policy (e.g., Hartley and Russett 1992; Hill 1998; Sobel 2001; Wlezien 1996). Similarly, while initial studies indicated that public opinion was volatile and incoherent (Almond 1950; Converse 1964; Miller 1967), work since the 1970s supports the conclusion that public opinion on foreign affairs is often stable, sensibly structured, and rational (Caspary 1970; Mueller 1973; Page and Shapiro 1992; Wittkopf 1990). Although we have a reasonable understanding of the nature of public opinion about foreign affairs, we know much less about the sources of this opinion. Holsti’s (1996) chapter on the “Sources of Foreign Policy Attitudes”—emblematic of the majority of enquiries on the matter—focuses on partisanship, ideology, and demographics. These attributes account for a considerable amount of cross-sectional variance in foreign policy attitudes, but they tell us little about how and why these attitudes might change over time.

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Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy

T h e conventional wisdom among human rights activists holds that a great deal of the ethnic conflict in the world today is caused by propagandistic manipulations of public opinion. Human Rights Watch, for example, points the finger at unscrupulous governments who try to save their own sluns by \"playing the communal card.\" As antidotes, such groups prescribe democratization, wide-open debate in civil society, and greater freedom of the press.' Scholars likewise argue that a major stimulus to belligerent nationalism is the state's manipulation of mass media and mass education to infuse the nation with a sense of in-group patriotism and out-group rivalry? They, too, prescribe greater freedom of ~peech .~ We agree that media manipulation often plays a central role in promoting nationalist and ethnic conflict, but we argue that promoting unconditional

Nationalism and the Marketplace of Ideas

Foreign News in the American Media.

Foreign News in American Media

Part 1 Historical background Part 2 Contemporary trends and problems: size and characteristics of industry contents of films - topics and themes, aesthetics, acting economics of industries - production and ownership, advertising and promotion, distribution and exhibition, training and professionalization, impact of video governments and film - regulations, restrictions, subsidies and other aid Part 3 Brief case studies: India (South Asia) Japan (East Asia) Philippines (Southeast Asia)

The Asian film industry

The winding, pot-holed road of comic art scholarship

Introduction - Gerald Sussman and John A Lent Critical Perspectives on Communication and Third World Development The Information Society - William H Melody The Transnational Economic Context and its Implications Telecommunications for Transnational Integration - Gerald Sussman The World Bank in the Philippines The North American Wave - John A Lent Communication Technology in the Caribbean Communication Technology and Dependency - S T Kwame Boafo Black African Perspectives The Transnationalization of Philippine Telecommunications - Gerald Sussman Post-Colonial Continuities Mexico's - Bella Mody and Jorge Borrego Morelos Satellite Reaching for Autonomy Telematics in Malaysia - John A Lent Room at the Top for a Selected Few Mass Media, Culture, and Communication in Brazil - Omar Souki Oliveira the Heritage of Dependency Communications, Culture, and Informatics in Brazil - Anamaria Fadul and Joseph Straubhaar the Current Challenges A Political Economy of Television - Manjunath Pendakur State, Class, and Corporate Confluence in India Video Beachheads - Marlene Cuthbert and Stewart M Hoover Communication, Culture, and Policy in the Eastern Caribbean The 'Tiger' from Lion City - Gerald Sussman Singapore's Niche in the New International Division of Information and Communication

John A. Lent

Papers

Foreign News in the American Media.

Foreign News in American Media

The Asian film industry

The winding, pot-holed road of comic art scholarship

Transnational Communications: Wiring the Third World