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.
Alexander Kautzsch
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander Kautzsch plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 Dialect in early African American plays: A qualitative assessment Earlier North American Englishes, Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 65–86 | Chapter
The sources for the historical reconstruction of African American English (AAE) are manifold, ranging from ex-slave narratives and interviews with hoodoo doctors to blues lyrics, and letters authored by semi-literates. The present article looks into the representation of AAE in a further source,… read more
2021 Chapter 6. The phonetics of Namibian English: Investigating vowels as local features in a global context The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an emerging variety, Schröder, Anne (ed.), pp. 111–134 | Chapter
Namibian English (NamE) is frequently referred to as an offspring of (White) South African English (SAfrE), although more recently researchers have tried to describe it as a variety in its own right. In particular, Kautzsch and Schröder (2016) describe several phonetic features seemingly specific… read more
2020 Ethnic variation in the phonology of Namibian English: A first approach to Baster English* English World-Wide 41:2, pp. 193–224 | Article
Studies on the pronunciation of Namibian English (NamE) have shown strong evidence for ethnically conditioned variation within the NamE vowel system. Thus, NamE should not be seen as a monolithic entity but rather as a group of ethnically and/or socially conditioned varieties. In this paper, we… read more
2019 Chapter 11. Morphosyntactic features in earlier African American English: A qualitative assessment of semi-literate letters Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 239–260 | Chapter
The present study contrasts two subcorpora of the Corpus of Earlier African American English, one consisting of letters and one of transcribed speech with a view to determining the relative non-standardness of the language in both subcorpora. By using the set of features laid out in the Mouton… read more
2019 Chapter 2.3. Namibian English on the web: Lexical and morphosyntactic features in a Corpus of Namibian Online Newspapers (CNamON) Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra U., Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia (eds.), pp. 231–258 | Chapter
The present chapter introduces the Corpus of Namibian Online Newspapers (CNamON), which encompasses the contents of seventeen news sources as available on the Internet from May to June 2016. These sources add up to roughly 44 million words of text. The corpus was compiled to facilitate taking a… read more
2018 From colonial dynamism to current transnationalism: A unified view on postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes Modeling World Englishes: Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties, Deshors, Sandra C. (ed.), pp. 15–44 | Chapter
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
2014 English in Namibia: A first approach English 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
2014 Editors’ preface: The evolution of Englishes: In honour of Edgar Schneider on the occasion of his 60th birthday The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. xi–xviii | Miscellaneous
2014 Introduction The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2014 English in Germany: Retreating exonormative orientation and incipient nativization The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 203–228 | Article
Even if linguistic research (e.g. Berns 1988; Hilgendorf 2005) has claimed that the status of English in Germany might be changing from foreign language (EFL) to second language (ESL) status, or, for that matter, from an Expanding Circle to an Outer Circle English (e.g. Kachru 1985), empirical… read more
2010 Review of Waniek-Klimczak (2008): Issues in Accents of English English World-Wide 31:3, pp. 361–365 | Review
2000 Differential creolization: Some evidence from Earlier African American Vernacular English in South Carolina Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages, Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.), pp. 247 ff. | Article