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Immigrants’ attitudes towards varieties of American English English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Jeongyi Lee, Keun Huh
Native speakers of English commonly perceive some social variants of their language to be more prestigious than others. It is less clear, however, whether nonnative English speakers from immigrant communities come to internalize similar language stereotypes. The present study analysed, through a language attitude survey, a total of 40 Korean American college students’ reactions to tape-recorded samples
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Constrained communication in EFL and ESL English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Lea Meriläinen
This study relies on the constrained communication framework to compare the use of embedded inversion in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL). It is based on several (sub)corpora of EFL and ESL, but also reference corpora of native English, which differ along the constraint dimensions of language activation (monolingual/bilingual), proficiency (native users/proficient
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Revisiting the aspectual BUSY in (South African) English English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Adri Breed
This paper investigates the so-called South African English busy progressive (for example, I’m busy working). Linguistic literature on South African English (SAfE) often states that this construction is a typical feature of this variety of English. The use and the frequency of this construction is mostly attributed to the influence of the Afrikaans [BUSYPROG XCOMP VINF] construction, as in Ek is besig
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Prejudice towards regional accents of Philippine English English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Edward Jay M. Quinto, Ardvin Kester S. Ong, Gillianne U. Yabut, Gary Abraham M. Muralla, Ralph Anthony J. Valenzuela, Ydel Dominique C. Villariba
This study examines linguistic prejudice towards the accents of three regional varieties of Philippine English: Cebuano English, Ilocano English, and Tagalog English. Data were collected using a verbal-guise technique taken by 982 listener-judges, who were selected using a purposive sampling technique. Results showed an overall more favorable attitude towards Tagalog English. Cebuano English and Ilocano
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Review of Wilson & Westphal (2023): New Englishes, New Methods English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Claudia Lange
This article reviews New Englishes, New Methods EUR 99978-902-721-368-6
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Review of Neumaier (2023): Conversation in World Englishes: Turn-Taking and Cultural Variation in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Susanne Mühleisen
This article reviews Conversation in World Englishes: Turn-Taking and Cultural Variation in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English EUR 110.87978-110-883-802-3
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How “U” are “U” words? English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Rhys J. Sandow, George Bailey, Natalie Braber, Eddie O’Hara-Brown
That U (upper-class) and non-U (non-upper class) speakers are identifiable through their vocabulary is an axiom in England. These claims are repeated in books, in print media, on social media, and in conversations regarding social class. However, such claims are seldom investigated empirically. To redress this, we consider the production and perception of allegedly U and non-U lexis through two studies
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Editors and world Englishes English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Melanie Ann Law Favo
The impact of editorial intervention on the language of published written texts has been the topic of a handful of recent empirical investigations within the world Englishes paradigm. These studies have demonstrated that the linguistic changes that editors make to texts written in world Englishes contexts are not as conservative or consistent as previously assumed, with some scholars suggesting that
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Participle-for-preterite variation in Tyneside English English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Sofia Serbicki, Ruijin Lan, Daniel Duncan
Variable use of the canonical participle for the canonical preterite is attested cross-dialectally in English. However, most variationist studies of this phenomenon focus on variability for one or a few verbs rather than the full set of verbs with canonically distinct preterites and participles. This study examines participle-for-preterite variation across this full set of verbs in Tyneside English
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The search for linguistically coherent accents English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Amanda Cole, Patrycja Strycharczuk
Linguistic research refers to many related accents in Southeast England: Standard Southern British English (SSBE), Received Pronunciation (RP), Estuary English (EE), Cockney and Multicultural London English (MLE). However, there is inconsistency and imprecision in the demarcation of these accents based on linguistic and social factors. This paper delineates accents in Southeast England based on patterns
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Stability and change in (ing) English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Catherine E. Travis, James Grama, Benjamin Purser
Work on variable (ing) has highlighted its long-term stability and shared conditioning across English varieties. Here, we ask whether similar stability and conditioning holds in Australian English over time and across ethnicity. The data come from sociolinguistic interviews with 204 Australians stratified according to age, gender, social class and ethnicity, drawn from the Sydney Speaks project. Analyses
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Broadening horizons in the diachronic and sociolinguistic study of Philippine English with the Twitter Corpus of Philippine Englishes (TCOPE) English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
This paper presents the Twitter Corpus of Philippine Englishes (TCOPE): a dataset of 27 million tweets amounting to 135 million words collected from 29 cities across the Philippines. It provides an overview of the dataset, and then shows how it can be employed to examine Philippine English (PhilE) and its relationship with extralinguistic factors (e.g. ethno-geographic region, time, sex). The focus
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As if, as though, and like in Canadian English English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Marisa Brook
Abstract This article traces the history of the minor complementisers as if, as though, and like (when they follow evidential verbs such as seem and look) in Canadian English. By the 21st century, both as if and as though were rare in Canada, while like appeared to have become popular (López-Couso and Méndez-Naya 2012b). The Victoria English Archive (D’Arcy 2011–2014, 2015; Roeder, Onosson, and D’Arcy
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A new majority English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Mary Kohn, Trevin Garcia
Representativeness in regional dialectology is critical to avoid essentialization when describing regional and ethnic language variation. Yet, regional vowel studies still tend to focus on majority-white communities. Additionally, lack of research on the Great Plains leaves research on regional variation in Latinx Englishes incomplete. We examine a majority-Latinx community in a dialect region where
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Swearing as a Leadership Tool English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Nick Wilson, Joshua Wedlock
Although swearing is often perceived as intrinsically offensive language, it is how swearing use is indexed against a person’s understanding of local social norms that constructs swearing as offensive. This paper presents an analysis of swearing within a social context where high frequency swearing is a norm: a male rugby team in New Zealand. Drawing upon a dataset collected from ethnographically collected
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Review of Mühleisen (2022): Genre in World Englishes: Case Studies from the Caribbean English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Bettina Migge
This article reviews Genre in World Englishes: Case Studies from the Caribbean EUR 999789027211385
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Review of Bolton, Botha & Kirkpatrick (2020): The Handbook of Asian Englishes English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Lisa Lehnen
This article reviews The Handbook of Asian Englishes 204.95978-1-1187-9180-6
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Necessity modal development in Singapore English English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Carmelo Alessandro Basile
Spoken in a multilingual environment characterised by continuous contacts with other languages, Singapore English (SgE) is a singular object of study. Its modal system has also been developing in independent ways compared to inner-circle varieties, e.g. British English, its historical ancestor. Different approaches have attempted to explain such developments, including the substratist and the grammaticalisation
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Spanish-influenced lexical phenomena in emerging Miami English English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Phillip M. Carter, Kristen D’Alessandro Merii
This study considers the role of Spanish-to-English calques in a variety of English that has developed alongside Spanish in Miami (U.S.). Data were obtained from three sources: (1) a production experiment (translation task) conducted with two generations of Cuban Americans, (2) a perception experiment (acceptability task) conducted with Miami-based raters and raters from a national audience using Mechanical
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Grammatical variation in World Englishes English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Peter Collins
This study adopts an onomasiological, alternation-based approach to the exploration of grammatical variation across World Englishes, using data sourced from the 1.9 billion-word Global Web-based English corpus. The macro-orientation of the study, which investigates a set of ten alternations known to be susceptible to diachronic change, facilitates identification of a number of general trends, including
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Maid in Cornwall English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Rhys J. Sandow
While the research literature on regional dialect levelling is substantial (e.g. Williams and Kerswill 1999; Britain 2002; Watt 2002; Jansen 2019), this process is under-explored and under-theorised when it comes to patterns of lexical usage. Using maid as a case-study, in this article I provide a detailed account of processes of lexical levelling in Cornwall. I consider the usage of maid from two
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Review of Schröder (2021): The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an Emerging Variety English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy
This article reviews The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an Emerging Variety EUR 99978-902-720-919-1
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Review of Mailhammer (2021): English on Croker Island: The Synchronic and Diachronic Dynamics of Contact and Variation English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Daniel Schreier
This article reviews English on Croker Island: The Synchronic and Diachronic Dynamics of Contact and Variation 114.9597831107077559783110707854
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The Spanish component of Falkland Islands English English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Yliana V. Rodríguez, Adolfo Elizaincín, Paz González
English is the most used language in the Falkland Islands; however, Spanish was also spoken in the 19th century, when beef livestock farming was one of the economic engines of the Islands. Such businesses used to be managed by gauchos from South America, and their presence is still evident in the lexicon of Falkland Islands English. This article presents a novel methodological approach to the elaboration
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The ages of pragmatic particles in Colloquial Singapore English English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Lijun Li, Eliane Lorenz, Peter Siemund
The study aims to work towards a diachronic reconstruction of pragmatic particles in Colloquial Singapore English (CSE, also known as “Singlish”) by exploiting an unused historical data source: The Oral History Interviews held by the National Archives of Singapore (OHI-NAS). We investigate the distribution of five pragmatic particles (ah, lah, leh, lor, and meh) in 101 interviews conducted between
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“He’s a lawyer you know and all of that” English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09
Abstract This study examines the use of general extenders in Nigerian English, from a variational corpus-pragmatic framework, with British English as a reference variety. The data are extracted from the Nigerian and British components of the International Corpus of English. The results reveal that Nigerian English has patterns of use of general extenders that differ systematically from British English
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Nigerian English as a Lingua Franca English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Julia Müller, Christian Mair
This paper investigates the use of Nigerian English in lingua-franca interaction in Germany, focussing on the perspective of the German listener. Fifty-eight German-speaking respondents were asked to transcribe short extracts from English interviews recorded with Nigerian immigrants and sojourners resident in Germany. In addition to testing comprehension, respondents were requested to rate samples
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Afrikaans English as a Southern Hemisphere English English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Gerald Stell
Afrikaans English is seen as connected to White South African English (WSAfE), a Southern Hemisphere English. What makes Afrikaans-speakers’ English varieties distinctly WSAfE or distinctly Afrikaans in a context that has seen much convergence between English and Afrikaans? To answer this question, this study looks at experimental English and Afrikaans phonetic data simultaneously elicited from an
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Review of Klumm (2021): Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad: Variation and Patterns English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Theresa Neumaier
This article reviews Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad: Variation and Patterns EUR 99.00978-902-720-969-6
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Review of Sadeghpour & Sharifian (2021): Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Sven Leuckert
This article reviews Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes EUR 106.99978-981-15-4695-2EUR 74.89978-981-15-4698-3
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Review of Steigertahl (2019): Englishes in Post-Independence Namibia. An Investigation of Variety Status and its Implications for English Language Teaching English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Gerald Stell
This article reviews Englishes in Post-Independence Namibia. An Investigation of Variety Status and its Implications for English Language Teaching 68.67978-363-179-960-4
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The get-passive in Tyneside English English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Carol Fehringer
This paper provides a quantitative variationist analysis of the distribution of get- versus be-passives in spoken Tyneside English. Taking data from the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (1960s to 2010), the paper uses mixed-effects modelling to examine a wide range of possible constraints on the distribution of get versus be, some of which have been discussed at length in the literature
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Exploring age-related changes in the realisation of (t) English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Isabelle Buchstaller, Adam Mearns, Anja Auer, Anne Krause-Lerche
An understanding of linguistic heterogeneity in older speakers is crucial for the study of language variation and change. To date, intra-speaker malleability in older populations remains under-researched, in varieties of English and more generally. This paper contributes panel data to the question of how aging individuals engage with ongoing changes in the realisation of (t) in the Tyneside region
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He come out and give me a beer but he never seen the bear English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Bridget L. Jankowski, Sali A. Tagliamonte
In this study, we examine variation in English strong verb preterite/participle morphology in four frequent verbs: came/come, saw/seen, gave/give and did/done, using data from more than a dozen Ontario communities, socially stratified by age, sex, occupation and education, representing a continuum of urban/rural locations and spanning more than 100 years in apparent-time. Comparative sociolinguistic
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Review of Buschfeld & Kautzsch (2021): Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach to Postcolonial and Non-postcolonial Englishes English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Christian Mair
This article reviews Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach to Postcolonial and Non-postcolonial Englishes 978-1-4744-4586-3
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Review of Davydova (2019): Quotation in Indigenised and Learner English: A Sociolinguistic Account of Variation English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Alexandra D’Arcy
This article reviews Quotation in Indigenised and Learner English: A Sociolinguistic Account of Variation EUR 102.959781501515651
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Between first language influence, exonormative orientation and migration English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma
Like other Englishes, Ugandan English is not a homogeneous variety. Being a second language to the vast majority of its multilingual speakers, it is, inevitably, influenced by their first languages. However, first language influence is just one factor that continues to shape Ugandan English. This paper reports on how influence from exonormative teaching models and the effects of migration, which constantly
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How real has the long-anticipated fast-growing influence of American English on Kenyan English been? English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Alfred Buregeya
In the 1990s, the existing literature anticipated a fast-growing influence of American English on Kenyan English in the following years. Mazrui and Mazrui (1996) even predicted a “coca-colanization” of Kenyan English. Focusing on vocabulary, the present study investigated whether the anticipated influence has occurred or not. From a sample of 75 fourth-year university students it collected self-reports
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Produced and perceived authenticity in the Northern Irish TV show Derry Girls English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Sara Díaz-Sierra
The success of the Northern Irish TV show Derry Girls seems partly due to its authentic portrayal of the English spoken in Northern Ireland and, more particularly, in Derry. This paper examines how authentic the performance of the Northern Irish accent by Ma Mary, one of the characters in the comedy, is from the points of view of produced and perceived authenticity. In order to determine the degree
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50 years of British accent bias English World-Wide (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Devyani Sharma, Erez Levon, Yang Ye
Do accent biases observed half a century ago (Giles 1970) and 15 years ago (Coupland and Bishop 2007) still hold in Britain today? We provide an updated picture of national attitudes to accent labels by replicating and extending previous studies. Mean ratings and relative rankings of 38 accents for prestige and pleasantness by a large representative sample of the British population (N = 821) attest