Sarah Buschfeld

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sarah Buschfeld plays a role.

Titles

The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond

Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch

[Varieties of English Around the World, G49] 2014. xviii, 513 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

The question of whether the English as spoken in Namibia can be considered a (second-language) variety or should rather be considered a learner English was first addressed in Buschfeld and Kautzsch (2014). The present study approaches this question from a quantitative perspective, focusing on the… read more
The ever-increasing dynamism of the diffusion of English calls for an integrated approach to postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes and to new contexts such as transnational cyberspace, new media, or “grassroots” usage. We focus on major theoretical approaches to modelling World Englishes in… read more
Buschfeld, Sarah 2014 English in Cyprus and Namibia: A critical approach to taxonomies and models of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition researchThe Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 181–202 | Article
This paper follows up on the recent claim that the strict separation between second-language varieties of English and learner Englishes is inadequate. It approaches this idea by combining theoretical considerations on the traditionally established differences between the two types of English with… read more
Buschfeld, Sarah and Alexander Kautzsch 2014 English in Namibia: A first approachEnglish World-Wide 35:2, pp. 121–160 | Article
Even though Namibia was never under direct British rule, it has been a country with English as the de jure official language since 1990, the year of independence from South Africa. Surprisingly, the de facto role of English in Namibia has to date not been systematically and comprehensively… read more
Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch 2014 IntroductionThe Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch 2014 Editors’ preface: The evolution of Englishes: In honour of Edgar Schneider on the occasion of his 60th birthdayThe Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. xi–xviii | Miscellaneous
Bongartz, Christiane and Sarah Buschfeld 2011 English in Cyprus: Second language variety or learner English?Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gap, Mukherjee, Joybrato and Marianne Hundt (eds.), pp. 35–54 | Article
The postcolonial linguistic situation of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus has been widely neglected in research investigating the spread of English around the globe. This article seeks to remedy the lack of systematic investigation and places Cyprus English within the framework of World Englishes… read more