Download or read book The Construction of English written by J. Gray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the view that ELT global coursebooks, in addition to being curriculum artefacts, are also highly wrought cultural artefacts which seek to make English mean in highly selective ways and it argues that the textual construction (and imaging) of English parallels the processes of commodity promotion more generally.