Research onWorld Englishes (WE) covers a wide range of subdisciplines in linguistics, from traditional English studies through corpus linguistics, dialectology and features-based approaches, the sociology of language, pidgin and creole studies, applied linguistics, critical linguistics, and English as an international language (EIL), to English as a lingua franca (ELF) (Bolton, 2018). One of the major difficulties in WE research is the diverse interdisciplinarity in the field, which means that WE researchers have to deal with ‘a high degree of diversity with reference to WE research and WE research methodologies’ (p. xi). Although WEs are now an established subdiscipline within linguistics, there are few papers on WE research methodologies. For WE researchers, especially novice ones, there is therefore an urgent need for methodologically oriented guides. Fortunately, Investigating World Englishes Research Methodology and Practical Applications, a timely methodological guide to WE research, may fill this gap. It methodologically focuses on the three selected areas within WE research, that is, corpus linguistics, ethnographic approaches, and the use of surveys and questionnaires. This book aims to provide an accessible and practical methodological guide to WE research for graduate students and researchers interested in WE. In the following text, we will briefly introduce and analyse the chapters and review the features and the weaknesses of the book as a whole. Chapter 1 ‘World Englishes, ELF, and EIL’ provides an overview of WE research’s three key paradigms, which are titled by the title of this chapter. The authors, Crowther and Maloney, briefly review several specific methodologies common to these paradigms. They explain that although the past ten to 15 years have witnessed a ‘methodological turn’ (Byrnes, 2013) that has enormously increased quantitative and qualitative SLA research practices, many discussions of key themes in WE research (e.g., identity, pronunciation, variation) still put minimal emphasis on the actual ways in which they are investigated. Part I ‘Methods of empirical inquiry’ is composed of chapters 2 to 4 and elaborates on the core concepts and theoretical backgrounds of three methods used in WE research. Chapter 2 ‘Corpus approaches to World Englishes: a bird’s-eye view’ traces the development of corpus-based approaches to WE research, showing how corpus-based approaches became a sub-field within WE research. Readers may benefit a lot from the detailed accounts of the strengths and weaknesses explored in this chapter. Maloney and Kessler, in Chapter 3 ‘Ethnography: Connecting the local and the global’, expound on how WE research is informed by ethnography and ethnographic methods, especially for researchers examining the local contexts and the experiences of individuals speaking various varieties of English. In addition, the strengths and weaknesses of these methods are discussed, offering insight to novice WE researchers. At the very end of this chapter, a

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弥补 WE 研究中缺失的方法部分 - Peter I. De Costa、Dustin Crowther 和 Jeffrey Maloney（编辑），调查世界英语研究方法和实际应用。纽约：劳特利奇，2019 年。十二+188。电子书 40.49 英镑，国际标准书号：9781138237438。

世界英语研究 (WE) 涵盖语言学的广泛子学科，从传统英语研究到语料库语言学、方言学和基于特征的方法、语言社会学、洋泾浜和克里奥尔语研究、应用语言学、批判语言学和英语作为国际语言 (EIL)，英语作为通用语 (ELF) (Bolton, 2018)。WE 研究的主要困难之一是该领域的多样化跨学科性，这意味着 WE 研究人员必须处理“参考 WE 研究和 WE 研究方法的高度多样性”（第 xi 页）。尽管 WEs 现在是语言学中一个成熟的子学科，但关于 WE 研究方法的论文很少。对于 WE 研究人员，尤其是新手，因此，迫切需要以方法论为导向的指南。幸运的是， Investigating World Englishes Research Methodology and Practical Applications，及时的 WE 研究方法指南，可能会填补这一空白。它在方法论上侧重于 WE 研究中的三个选定领域，即语料库语言学、民族志方法以及调查和问卷的使用。本书旨在为对 WE 感兴趣的研究生和研究人员提供一个易于理解且实用的 WE 研究方法指南。在下文中，我们将简要介绍和分析章节，并从整体上回顾本书的特点和不足。第 1 章“世界英语、ELF 和 EIL”概述了 WE 研究的三个关键范式，这些范式以本章的标题命名。作者们，Crowther 和 Maloney 简要回顾了这些范式共有的几种具体方法。他们解释说，尽管过去 10 到 15 年见证了“方法论转变”（Byrnes，2013），极大地增加了定量和定性 SLA 研究实践，但对 WE 研究中的关键主题（例如，身份、发音、变异）的许多讨论仍然很少强调调查它们的实际方式。第一部分“实证探究的方法”由第 2 章到第 4 章组成，详细阐述了 WE 研究中使用的三种方法的核心概念和理论背景。第 2 章“世界英语的语料库方法：鸟瞰图”追溯了基于语料库的 WE 研究方法的发展，展示了基于语料库的方法如何成为 WE 研究的一个子领域。读者可能会从本章探讨的优势和劣势的详细描述中受益匪浅。Maloney 和 Kessler 在第 3 章“民族志：连接本地和全球”中阐述了 WE 研究如何通过民族志和民族志方法获得信息，特别是对于研究当地环境和讲各种英语的个人的经验的研究人员。此外，还讨论了这些方法的优缺点，为新手 WE 研究人员提供了见解。在本章的最后，一个 特别是对于研究当地环境和讲各种英语的人的经验的研究人员。此外，还讨论了这些方法的优缺点，为新手 WE 研究人员提供了见解。在本章的最后，一个 特别是对于研究当地环境和讲各种英语的人的经验的研究人员。此外，还讨论了这些方法的优缺点，为新手 WE 研究人员提供了见解。在本章的最后，一个