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Double modals in Australian and New Zealand English World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Cameron Morin, Steven Coats
This paper reports the first large-scale corpus study of double modal usage in Australian and New Zealand Englishes, based on a multi-million-word corpus of geolocated automatic speech recognition transcripts from YouTube. Double modals are considered rare grammatical features of English, which have long been extremely difficult to observe in natural language due to low frequencies, non-standardness
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Variation in world Englishes through the lens of negation World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Peter Collins
This article reports the findings of a study of negation across varieties of English worldwide, with data derived from the Global Web-Based Corpus of English. Three general categories are explored: negative polarity-sensitive expressions (lexical verbs such as bother, and idioms such as give a damn); negators (idioms such as be not half bad, boilerplate no-collocations such as no worries, and implicit
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Translingual Englishes, participatory hip-hop and social media in Nepal World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Bal Krishna Sharma
This article discusses some key functions and features of English in participatory popular culture and social media in Nepal. Analytical attention is paid to how English use in rap battles is entangled with other local languages and semiotic modes to create translingual practices and how online metapragmatic comments about the rap battles give rise to diverse language ideologies. The study shows that
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Acoustic properties of the monophthongs of Assamese Indian English speakers World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Priyankoo Sarmah, Caroline R. Wiltshire
This study investigates acoustic properties of the monophthongal vowels of English as spoken by 20 Assamese speakers in North East India, based on their medium of education being English or Assamese. Research suggests that English in India may be converging to a more homogenous standard, at least among educated speakers, despite common first language (L1) differences (Maxwell & Fletcher, 2009; Sirsa
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A socio-historical analysis of English in Libya World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Ghada Gherwash
Political instability has been a mainstay in Libya since the Italian occupation in 1911. In the intervening years, the shifting political landscape has had an undeniable influence on the presence of English in the country. In this paper, I argue that Libya presents an ideal case study for Kachru's Concentric Circles of English, where ‘linguistic ammunition’ (Kachru, 1986: 121) is used to manipulate
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The indigenization of Ghanaian Pidgin English World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Kofi Yakpo
In the world Englishes literature, ‘indigenization’ is shorthand for the localization of Outer Circle Englishes in former exploitation colonies like Ghana. However, the localization of Ghanaian English has been continually reversed by ‘corrective’ realignment with world standard English through institutional regimes. By contrast, the localization of Ghanaian Pidgin English has proceeded unhampered
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Future-time reference in world Englishes World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Axel Bohmann
This paper presents the first large-scale multivariate analysis of future-time reference (FTR) variation in world Englishes. On the basis of 7,922 hand-coded tokens from eight corpora of the International Corpus of English suite, the study probes the effect of eight predictor variables on the choice between will and BE going to (BGT) as FTR markers. Statistically significant effects for all conditioning
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The be- versus get-passive alternation in world Englishes World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Marianne Hundt, Bethany Dallas, Shimon Nakanishi
Multifactorial studies of the be:get-passive alternation are still rare. On the basis of the International Corpus of English, this is the first investigation to use mixed modelling for the passive alternation in world Englishes. Overall, our findings reveal that regional differences are far less important than language-internal constraints, with Inner and Outer Circle varieties largely sharing a core
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A comparative study of English in advertising in France and Quebec World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Elizabeth Martin
This study seeks to expand our understanding of code-mixed advertising by comparing the use of English aimed at Francophone consumers in the Expanding Circle and the Inner Circle. Focusing on France and the Canadian province of Quebec, this analysis illustrates how marketing strategies differ across regional and national boundaries while highlighting the shift of English from a foreign to an additional
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Discourse markers so and well in Zimbabwean English: A corpus-based comparative analysis World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Faith Chiedza Chapwanya, Joanine Hester Nel
This analysis of discourse markers so and well in Zimbabwean English (ZE) and British English was carried out to determine possible statistically significant variations in their occurrence and function frequencies in spoken and written registers, and in different genres to ascertain if they are used in the same manner in both languages and in different language use contexts. The ZE corpus and the International
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EMI (English-medium instruction) in Cambodian higher education World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2023-01-28 Benedict Lin, Kingsley Bolton, John Bacon-Shone, Bophan Khan
This article is based on empirical research carried out at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), Cambodia, between 2018 and 2019. The research involved both quantitative and qualitative approaches. In the case of the former, the researchers conducted a large-scale survey of students involving 956 respondents, of whom 79 were postgraduate students, while the overwhelming majority were studying
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EMI (English-medium instruction) in Indonesian higher education World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Kingsley Bolton, Christopher Hill, John Bacon-Shone, Karen Peyronnin
This article reports on the investigation of English-medium instruction (EMI) in Indonesian higher education. Two separate but related studies were carried out. In Phase One, a mixed method approach using a questionnaire and interviews was used at a private university in Jakarta in order to gauge the responses of undergraduates studying a range of subjects through English. The results of Phase One
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EMI (English-medium instruction) in Singapore's major universities World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Werner Botha, Kingsley Bolton, John Bacon-Shone
In this article we report on the dynamics of English-medium instruction (EMI) in Singaporean higher education, where we describe the context of EMI with reference to the multilingual background and multilingual practices of university students in their educational as well as personal lives. Our study surveyed over one thousand students from Singapore's six main universities, where we investigated the
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EMI (English-medium instruction) across the Asian region World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-12-17 Kingsley Bolton, John Bacon-Shone, Werner Botha
This article has two main aims. First, to describe the general background to English-medium instruction (EMI) with reference to Outer Circle and Expanding Circle societies in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Second, it analyses data from each of the four case studies in the symposium in this issue in order to identify and explain the background to, and varying forms, of EMI in higher education
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EMI (English-medium instruction) in South Korean elite universities World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-12-17 Kingsley Bolton, Hyejeong Ahn, Werner Botha, John Bacon-Shone
This article provides an extensive review of previous research on English-medium instruction (EMI) in South Korean higher education. It then goes on to discuss the findings of a 2017 survey at four elite universities in South Korea, which were Seoul National University, Korea University, Yonsei University, and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). While some of the results could
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Introduction to symposium on English-medium instruction (EMI) in Asian higher education World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, Benedict Lin
This symposium comprises five articles dealing with English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education across the Asian region. All five articles report on original empirical research carried out in four diverse settings, Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore, and South Korea. It is intended that this collection of articles will make a meaningful contribution to the frontline of research on English-medium
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Introduction: Englishes of the Caribbean World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Philipp Meer, Mirjam Schmalz
The English-official Caribbean provides an insightful context for investigations of norm developmental processes, world Englishes theorizing, and mapping Englishes in multivarietal communities. While there has been an upsurge of linguistic research on the region, especially on emerging standardized varieties, little systematic empirical research exists on smaller Caribbean islands, select domain-specific
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The Americanization of Barbadian English World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Christine Stuka
This paper investigates attitudes and perceptions of Barbadians toward British and American English on the one hand, and the degree of structural Americanization of contemporary Barbadian English as documented in a corpus of Facebook comments on the other hand. The results indicate a discrepancy between explicitly formulated preferences and actual production patterns; while American English is devalued
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Special issue on world Englishes and English for specific purposes (ESP) World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Kingsley Bolton, Christopher Jenks
This special issue brings together leading scholars in the field of English for specific purposes (ESP) for an innovative and insightful discussion of the interface between ESP, as a leading subject area in applied and educational linguistics, and world Englishes (WE), as a sub-discipline of linguistics and sociolinguistics. The contributions to this special issue explore, in various ways, the synergies
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World Englishes and English for specific purposes (ESP) World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Kingsley Bolton, Christopher Jenks
This article sets out to review English for specific purposes (ESP) as a discipline and its conceptual and scholarly connections with the world Englishes (WE) approach English worldwide. This is done partly through a detailed literature review of articles on ESP in the Asian and European regions, taken from the journal English for Specific Purposes, identifying which countries and topics are most frequently
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Ecdysis for globalization: ESP in Japan today World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Judy Noguchi
The Japanese are often made fun of for their lack of ability to use other languages, especially English. This article will suggest some reasons for this and then go on to describe various efforts being made to improve English education in Japan. One of these has been the application of an ESP (English for specific purposes) approach to the teaching of specific language registers. Various examples are
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Models of English for research publication purposes World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 John Flowerdew
English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) is a sub-field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), itself a sub-field of applied linguistics. This article considers ERPP from a world Englishes perspective, considering the question as to what sort of English is appropriate for ERPP: the standardised model, as preferred at present, or a varietal, world Englishes, model, which would take more account
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Englishes of the Caribbean: A research bibliography World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Mirjam Schmalz, Philipp Meer
The research bibliography presented in this paper lists some of the major research outputs on Englishes in the Caribbean. While selected foundational studies are listed, the focus lies on works published since the year 2000. Considering the linguistic diversity of the anglophone Caribbean, the publications listed include works on English-based Creoles, Englishes, mesolectal language use and mixed codes
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Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Philipp Meer, Robert Fuchs, Dagmar Deuber, Véronique Lacoste, Eva Canan Hänsel
Varieties of English in the Caribbean have been claimed to have characteristic pitch patterns. However, there is little empirical research on prosodic aspects of English in the region. This paper provides a comparative phonetic analysis of several pitch parameters (pitch level, range, dynamism, rate of change, variability in rate of change, and tone rate) in English language data from Dominica, Grenada
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Comparing attitudes toward Caribbean, British, and American accents in Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Eva Canan Hänsel, Philipp Meer
This article compares the attitudes of respondents from Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States toward speakers from these countries and from Grenada. Analyses of mean values on the attitude dimensions of status and solidarity reveal striking similarities between the rankings of the stimuli by the three respondent groups, especially regarding the British and American stimuli
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Teachers’ language attitudes and production patterns in St. Kitts World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Mirjam Schmalz
This study looks at language attitudes and production patterns of teachers in St. Kitts in the Eastern Caribbean, based on metalinguistic interviews conducted with nine teachers and one principal, as well as field notes from classroom observations. The analysis of these data shows generally positive attitudes towards Kittitian Creole (KC) amongst the teachers, who value KC for its cultural significance
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Variation in the imperfective in Bahamian English World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Alexander Laube
The current study investigates variation in the marking of two aspectual subcategories of the imperfective in Bahamian English. First, it looks into variable auxiliary be use in progressive and future constructions, that is, the variation between full, contracted and zero be in non-past V-ing environments and related contexts. Second, the paper examines variable application of preverbal does/is/’s
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British and American norms in the Trinidadian English lexicon World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Guyanne Wilson
Previous work on norm orientations in the Caribbean Englishes has focussed largely on phonological norms, such as accents, and, to a lesser extent, grammatical norm orientation. Outside of the publication of dictionaries, however, lexical norms and their spread have received little attention. This paper examines lexical norm orientations in Trinidadian English, presenting the results of a corpus-based
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Posthumanism and the role of orality and literacy in language ideologies in Belize World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Britta Schneider
This article discusses language ideological data from interviews and group discussions conducted in a village in Belize. Speakers here perceive English as a formal prestige language and link this to the fact that it appears in written form and tangible materiality – that is, in the form of visual symbols in text, and in objects like grammar books or dictionaries. This contrasts with discourses on Belizean
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Complementation and the creole continuum in the Eastern Caribbean World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 James A. Walker, Miriam Meyerhoff
This article examines complement clauses in the Caribbean English spoken in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines). Despite a small population (about 5,000), physical proximity and pervasive kinship ties across villages, Bequia English is characterised by considerable inter-group differentiation, suggesting the existence of a (post-)creole continuum. We analyse variation in the complementisers used
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Bundles in advanced EAL authors’ articles: How do they compare with world Englishes practices? World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Ken Hyland, Feng (Kevin) Jiang
With increasing numbers of scholars from around the world now engaged in international publishing to further their careers, many authors for whom English is not their first language worry about the acceptability of their language to journal editors. In this article we explore this issue by focusing on a key component of fluent academic writing: the high frequency fixed-word collocations known as lexical
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World Englishes for specific purposes: A multi-perspective view World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Vijay K. Bhatia
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) discourses largely involve participants from different linguistic backgrounds in terms of their regional, economic, and sociocultural settings. Moreover, due to the globalisation of trade and commerce across international borders, professional practices invariably involve multiperspective interactions and negotiations across a range of participants interacting with
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A multimodal approach to English for academic purposes in contexts of diversity World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Arlene Archer
This article focuses on the affordances of multimodal pedagogies in teaching English for academic purposes (EAP) in diverse and multilingual contexts. It draws on South Africa as an example of a multilingual, culturally diverse site in a recently decolonized country. Here theorizing and pedagogical practices around EAP often have a social justice agenda in order to redress the inequalities of the past
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English in Northern Cyprus: A sociolinguistic profile World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Ali Fuad Selvi, Leyla Silman-Karanfil
Much has been written and said about the roles, functions, and status of English and its diverse implications in local contexts and for people therein. However, Northern Cyprus stands out as a ‘blind spot’ as it is often annexed in studies related to Turkey or diluted within discussions focusing on Cyprus – which collectively leads to limited, partial, and tangential accounts of the complexities embedded
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World Englishes in ELT textbooks in Swedish upper-secondary schools World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Nellie Lindqvist, Josep Soler
In this article, we investigate how different varieties of English are represented in a selection of materials used in upper-secondary schools in Sweden. A 2011 policy reform of the curriculum for the teaching and learning of English at upper-secondary level underscored the global dimension of the language, taking a distance from the traditional focus on British English. Findings from our content analysis
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Tagging Singapore English World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Li Lin, Kunmei Han, Jia Wen Hing, Luwen Cao, Vincent Ooi, Nick Huang, Zhiming Bao
It is well-known that Outer Circle English has undergone extensive contact-induced lexical and grammatical restructuring. Is it possible to use common NLP tools developed for Inner Circle English to process Outer Circle English texts? Here, we report our experience of using the Stanford PoS tagger to tag the Singaporean component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-SIN). We isolate two major
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Further explorations of connected speech in Nigerian English World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 David Jowitt
The article begins with the assertion that much research has now been done on the once-neglected suprasegmental phonology of Nigerian English. A principal area of interest in this field is connected speech, and several Nigerian scholars have addressed many of the issues involved, not least the patterns of intonation structure. Building on these studies, and taking the British descriptive tradition
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Epicentral influence via agent-based modelling World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Marianne Hundt, Laetitia Van Driessche, Dirk Pijpops
One limitation of corpus-based research into the epicentre hypothesis is that it only provides information on structural similarity/difference of varieties but not on the role that attitudes may play in the choice of variants in a pluricentric language. In our case study on verb complementation patterns, we use simulation as a complementary methodology. We build an agent-based model for two speaker
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Theoretical models and statistical modelling of linguistic epicentres World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Tobias Bernaisch, Stefan Th. Gries, Benedikt Heller
Motivated by a fundamental discussion of the relation between theoretical and statistical modelling, the present paper takes stock of the research history of linguistic epicentres in the world Englishes paradigm and seeks to provide suggestions for future epicentral studies. Based on a review of earlier research into potential epicentral constellations, we provide an overview of the genesis of the
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The current state of research into linguistic epicentres World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Pam Peters, Tobias Bernaisch
This special issue focuses on key issues in epicentral research. Against the background of a brief discussion of the epicentre metaphor in the world Englishes paradigm, the various regional constellations in Africa, America, Asia and Australasia relevant to the concept of linguistic epicentres are highlighted and the temporal framing of epicentral influence is discussed with regard to often-assumed
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Epicentral influences of Indian English on Nepali English World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Sandra Götz
The present paper investigates India's potential role as a linguistic epicentre for Nepal by conducting a short-term diachronic follow-up study of Bernaisch and Lange (2012) that is based on the South Asian Varieties of English corpus. Based on the recently updated version of the corpus with similar data from a decade later, a potential spread of the presentational itself construction with an adverbial
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Epicentral effects on -ed/-t inflectional variation in Australasian Englishes 1850–2020 World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Pam Peters, Adam Smith, Minna Korhonen
This research examines the possibility of epicentral influence of AusE on NZE, focusing on morphosyntactic variation over 170 years in verb inflections (-ed/-t) for the past tense/participles of a set of 12 verbs including burn, learn, spell, spoil. To obtain a diachronic perspective on them in Australasian Englishes we use historical data from 19th- and 20th-century corpora, and 21st-century data
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Irregular verb morphology in Nigerian English World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Temitayo Olatoye
Verb regularization is often characterized as a morphological Americanism in contemporary English. Using a synchronic approach, this study investigates the regular -ed vs. irregular -t alternation in preterites and past participles from British, American, and Nigerian Englishes. Although verb regularization patterns in Nigerian English are considered to be under the growing influence of American English
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The epicentre model and American influence on Bahamian Englishes World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Stephanie Hackert
Americanization has been described as one of the major sociocultural processes of language change currently affecting varieties of English worldwide; it is generally linked to the post-World War II rise of the United States to global superpower status in political, military, economic, and cultural terms. Owing to their immediate geographical proximity, the Bahamas always had closer demographic, cultural
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Using VADIS to weigh competing epicentral influence World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Roberta La Peruta
The present study sets out to explore the mandative subjunctive in Canadian English (CanE), vs. its potential epicentre American English (AmE), and its historical input variety British English (BrE) based on a quantitative variationist analysis of the Strathy Corpus of Canadian English (Strathy), the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), and the British National Corpus (BNC). The relevance
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Post-protectorate Uganda and current models of influence across Englishes World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Christiane Meierkord
This paper presents the overall results of a research project that investigated factors determining how speakers of Ugandan English express futurity, ability and obligation. Findings reveal that forms identified to convey these meanings in American, Indian, Kenyan or Nigerian English, and whose use would reveal influence from these, are seldom used. Rather, persisting exonormative orientation towards
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Parameters of epicentral status World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-06-11 Edgar W. Schneider
The present paper offers a fundamental discussion of constituent parameters and relevant issues associated with the concepts of pluricentricity and epicentres. It proposes an explicit division into a weak reading, highlighting the co-existence of national varieties of languages, and a strong one, focusing on influence exerted by some varieties on others. Parameters which constitute epicentres include
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Migration, media, and the emergence of pidgin- and creole-based informal epicentres World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Christian Mair
The paper makes a case for regarding Nigerian Pidgin (Naijá) and Jamaican Creole (Patois) as informal linguistic epicentres in the global English Language Complex. This requires a few modifications to current definitions of linguistic epicentres but leads to a sociolinguistically realistic and more comprehensive account of the profound influence that Jamaica and Nigeria have had on the development
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Parliamentary Hansard records and epicentral influence in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Adam Smith, Minna Korhonen
This paper investigates the possibility of epicentral influence from two endonormative varieties of English – Australian English (AusE) and New Zealand English (NZE) – on a norm-developing variety, Papua New Guinean English (PNGE). Through a keyword analysis of recent parliamentary Hansard data, we are able to identify some structural language features that distinguish the Pacific varieties from British
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Satiric parody through Indian English tweets in Twitter World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Sujata S. Kathpalia
This paper examines satiric parody in Hinglish tweets that users created in response to the censorship in India of the James Bond movie Spectre. The analysis reveals the creativity with which users conflated two different cultures (Indian and Western) and languages (Hindi and English) in their tweets for a parodic portrayal of James Bond in an Indianized avatar and a satirical criticism of the underlying
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The sociolinguistic dynamics of Russian and English in post-1990 Lithuania World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Loreta Vaicekauskienė
The paper describes the sociolinguistic history of English in one of the post-Soviet Eastern European countries - Lithuania - covering three post-1990 decades. The aim is to examine the dynamics of the spread of English in relation to the ‘non-native’ Russian, the main lingua franca and L2 in this region after WWII until 1990. Based on a set of attitudinal, educational and self-assessment data as well
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The Americanisation of English in Brunei World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2022-04-17 Salbrina Sharbawi
Previous studies investigating postulations that Brunei English was being shaped by American English did not yield any conclusive findings. In recent years, claims of young English-speaking Bruneians sounding American have become more persistent, thereby precipitating this research. Data was collected from 38 Bruneian Malays who are in their late teens and mid-twenties and over 900 tokens representative
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Exploring English in TV product advertising for Dutch-speaking children World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Gillian Roberts, Eline Zenner, Laura Rosseel
In the context of global English, children are an interesting target group both from a marketing and a linguistic perspective, yet the use of English in advertising for children has so far received little research attention. Investigating English in a corpus of 3566 free morphemes (smallest independent linguistic elements) in 98 TV product advertisements aimed at Dutch-speaking children in Flanders
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Ideologies of English-medium instruction in Vietnam World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Dang H. Tri
This study seeks to conduct a multi-layered examination of language ideologies in English-medium instruction (EMI) education anchored in policy documents and relevant stakeholders’ discourse in Vietnam. Research data were based on national and institutional policies and interviews with ten university administrators, 15 content lecturers, and five focus groups of six students. The findings indicate
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Current research on the linguistic features of Chinese English World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2021-11-09 Sven Albrecht
This article argues that there are central features of Chinese English regardless of a speaker's Chinese first language (L1) or dialect. The current state of research on Chinese English is reviewed, outlining phonological, lexical, syntactical, prosodic, and discourse and pragmatic features of Chinese English. These features are categorized according to their pervasiveness based on different L1 backgrounds
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English and regional identity in ASEAN World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Huan Yik Lee, M. Obaidul Hamid, Ian Hardy
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has deployed English not only as its sole working language but also as a tool for forging regional identity, unity and solidarity among its ten member-states. Drawing on the concept of ‘imagined communities’ and, by extension, ‘imagined identity regionalism’, this article provides a critical examination of this policy desire and asks the question whether
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Web survey data on the use of the English language in the Japanese workplace World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Takunori Terasawa
This study sought to determine the extent to which English has spread in Japanese society. It analyses large-scale web panel-based questionnaire survey data and estimates English use frequency using a bias correction method. The results show that for most types of English use investigated, the average frequencies were less than five times a year, the proportions of English users were less than 20%
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Requests in Indian and Sri Lankan English World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2021-10-22 Julia Degenhardt
Despite notable exceptions, research on requests in world Englishes has so far largely involved role plays, questionnaires and discourse completion tasks. Moreover, research on requests in South Asian varieties of English is rather scarce. Therefore, the present study employs a multifactorial approach towards requests in Indian and Sri Lankan English as compared to their historical input variety British
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Multilingual legal practice and law student internships in Malaysia World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2021-06-27 Richard Powell, Tiong Guan Saw
Mediated through hierarchical domestic institutions and a global system of jurisprudence that tends to view older jurisdictions as more authentic or authoritative legal sources, the language of common law is seldom explored through a world Englishes lens, but Malaysian law has opened up possibilities for indigenised and pluricentric common law by its use of Malay alongside English. While some studies
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Actually in Nordic tweets World Englishes (IF 1.154) Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Jukka Tyrkkö, Magnus Levin, Mikko Laitinen
‘Native-like’ use of discourse markers is a good indicator of language proficiency. Analysing four subcorpora of English-language tweets posted by Twitter users from the Nordic countries of Finland, Norway, and Sweden, this study considers the effects of discursive context and L1 influence on the correlation between semantic function and sentence position of the discourse marker actually. The study