TOWARD MULTILINGUAL UNIVERSITY DISCOURSE(S): NEGOTIATING GLOBAL ENGLISHES NER
Bruce Hor
I outline the implications for uses of English in university discourse of four pheno-
mena associated with globalization. These phenomena call into question insistence on
any standardizing of English (or other) language practices and any imposed hierarchies
of one version of English over another in both oral and written university communica-
tions. I differentiate a multilingual approach, which addresses all writing as situated
practice negotiating competing and shifting norms, from increasing calls for replacing
production of the commodity of skill in writin