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Constructing Realities

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Constructing Realities: Identity, Discourse and Englishness

By

Stuart Cartland

University of Sussex, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Acknowledgements

First and foremost I'd like to thank my family, Jacindy and Elieh for tolerating me for the duration of this project, not to mention help with unending editing. A special thank you also to Paul Hopper for helping me with this work from the very beginning. I would also like to thank my colleagues within the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton who have always been supportive and helpful. Thank you to the editors and staff at the journals who have accepted my work over recent years in particular Culture Matters and Compass. Finally, I would like to thank my students both at the University of Brighton and the University of Sussex who have inadvertently been subject of opinion and attitudinal observation, and who have always constructively challenged my assertions.