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'''Decentered English''' is a term and theory articulated by ] and ] Darius Degher of ] in ]. It was first used in 2008 in the online description of the ] Shipwrights, of which Degher is the founder and editor. There the publication is described as "the magazine of decentered English: a review of new writing from beyond the ]." More recently, the term has also been used to describe the orientation of the ] program at Malmö University.

The theory of a decentered English posits a ] useful in describing the postmodern, global state of the ] as it expands outward from its former center, the Anglosphere of ] and the ]. The theory suggests that since the combined number of global second- and foreign-language English speakers now triples that of native English speakers (1.2 billion to 375 million respectively, according to the ]),<ref>Graddol, David. 2006. English Next. British Council.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-research-english-next.pdf</ref> a shift of linguistic power is underway and that this shift is having, and will have, consequences on issues related to English as the ]. These issues are numerous and potentially unforeseeable but include those of linguistic influence, correctness, accent leveling, ownership, and agency.

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