Sharon Marsden
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sharon Marsden plays a role.
Articles
2017 Are New Zealanders “rhotic”? The dynamics of rhoticity in New Zealand’s small towns English World-Wide 38:3, pp. 275–304 | Article
Rhoticity is highly variable across English varieties. Traditionally, descriptions of English have distinguished between “rhotic” and “non-rhotic” varieties. However, Harris’s (2013) recent description of three core rhotic systems (R1, R2 and R3) demonstrates that this dichotomy is overly… read more
2013 Doing listenership: One aspect of sociopragmatic competence at work Pragmatics and Society 4:1, pp. 26–53 | Article
The skills involved in contributing competently in workplace interaction include enacting attentive listenership and providing appropriate feedback to the talk of others. These sociopragmatic skills are often overlooked, and when non-native-like listener feedback does attract attention, cultural… read more
2008 Review of Pennycook (2007): Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows English World-Wide 29:3, pp. 358–363 | Review