As was seen in Chapters 3 and 4, the WE paradigm is concerned with the ways in which English, the former imperial language, has been appropriated and reforged locally in different parts of the world, giving rise to a myriad of Englishes, all distinctive in form but equal in value and dignity. Fundamentally, the WE school of thought seeks to decentralise and pluralise the concept ‘English’ and to provide representations of it alternative to the Anglocentric model. Accordingly, WE literature has repeatedly criticised purist positions about English, the argument being that English is not just a British or American language but also an Indian, Ghanaian, Malaysian and so on language. Learners and users of English around the world need not be dependent on exonormative models but should be able to rely on endonormative ones.
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