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Jalava 1978 quoted in Phillipson and Skutnabb Kangas 1986
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Mr. Phillipson is the world's leading historian of the Scottish Enlightenment.
A Wealth Of Ideas Jeffrey Collins 2010
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Its an interesting question Scott as so much effort is put into convincing parents (in marketing terms) that the younger the better really works (see Phillipson on this!), and language policy in Europe and beyond is definitely affected by the growth of English etc which puts pressure on policy makers to up the amount of English often at the expense of other foreign languages, and to begin it earlier.
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It had all the hallmarks, therefore, of the kind of disenfranchising native-speaker-fest that Holliday, Phillipson, Pennycook et al, decry.
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The first from Phillipson, author of Linguistic Imperialism:
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I often feel, especially when listening to Alistair Penycook and Phillipson, that they are addressing a world that has been, not one which is rapidly changing.
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Students should understand a term known as ‘linguistic imperialism’ which is defined by its creator Robert Phillipson as “the dominance asserted and retained by the establishment and continuous reconstitution of structural and cultural inequalities between English and other languages”.
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I would say again tho (sorry to insist) there are huge differences in the work done by Phillipson and Pennycook.
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"All this sounds more like Clouseau than Columbo," said Keith Vaz, the committee chairman. ne member, Bridget Phillipson, criticized the police for expecting help from the organization they were investigating.
U.K. to Urge News Corp. to Drop BSkyB Bid Alistair MacDonald 2011
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Holliday, Pennycook and Phillipson argue such different positions it pains me to see you lumping them together like this.
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