Abstract
Throughout this chapter, we discuss how Moroccan English is conceptualized, rationalized and exercised through different lenses. We attempt to materialize “Moroccan English” as a critical and ideological construct, but we also recognize its potential peripherality since inequalities among Englishes are anchored in linguistic, cultural and epistemic hierarchies among speakers rather than the Englishes per se. Moroccan English is imagined as the localized and situated understanding of the sociocultural and sociopolitical capital of English and how it shapes Moroccans’ engagement among themselves and with the international community. There are constant references to how social/hegemonic structures impinge upon the viability of Moroccan English; in other words, Moroccan English is a contested concept among the participants in the exchange for all sorts of reasons. We therefore focus on how the notion of Moroccan English as a form of postcolonial resistance and agency is not simplistic and/but is implicated in conditions of power and identity, and structures of social relations. Copyright © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Ruanni Tupas; individual chapters, the contributors.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Investigating unequal Englishes: Understanding, researching and analysing inequalities of the Englishes of the world |
| Editors | Ruanni TUPAS |
| Place of Publication | Abingdon, Oxon |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Pages | 168-181 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003355885 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032410234, 9781032410241 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2024 |