While much has been published on Outer Circle varieties of English in Asia and Africa, Outer Circle Englishes in the South Pacific (SPE) are still relatively unknown. This paper focuses on Samoan English, a newly emerging variety in Samoa, an island state in Polynesia. The paper discusses the role of English in Samoa's past and present and describes major structural features of Samoan English in terms of its phonology, lexicon and grammar. Local discourse and pragmatic strategies will also be touched upon. The study is based on recordings of Samoan speakers made during a field trip and a newspaper corpus of 300,000 words from the Samoa Observer, a local newspaper. The study demonstrates that we can indeed speak of Samoan English as a variety in the making and that it is useful to consider SPE to gain a better understanding of the evolution and nature of Outer Circle Englishes in general.

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萨摩亚英语：南太平洋的新兴品种

虽然已经发表了很多关于亚洲和非洲外圈英语变体的文章，但南太平洋的外圈英语 (SPE) 仍然相对未知。本文重点介绍萨摩亚英语，这是波利尼西亚岛国萨摩亚的一个新兴品种。本文讨论了英语在萨摩亚过去和现在中的作用，并从语音、词汇和语法方面描述了萨摩亚英语的主要结构特征。还将涉及当地话语和务实策略。该研究基于实地考察期间萨摩亚人的录音和萨摩亚观察家的 300,000 字报纸语料库，当地报纸。该研究表明，我们确实可以将萨摩亚英语视为正在形成的变体，并且考虑 SPE 以更好地了解外圈英语的演变和本质是有用的。