Crystal's belief that a World Standard Spoken English (WSSE) will develop for Global English speakers to use in international contexts, while they mantain their local varieties of Englshes makes me question if WE are constructing a "New Standard."
Will U.S. English serve as the model for this WSSE? If a WSSE comes into existence are WE imposing the same type of linguistic imperialism that Phillipson proposes that English is performing on other languages? Thus, will WE directly or indirectly cause linguitic mimicry and imitiation in the expanding circle, very distant from the WE purpose?
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