World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects
Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference
Editors
World Englishes is a vibrant research field that has attracted scholars from many different linguistic subdisciplines. Emphasizing the common ground of all research on World Englishes, the 22 articles in this collected volume, selected from more than a hundred papers presented at the 2007 conference of the International Association for World Englishes in Regensburg, cover a broad range of topics which together reflect the state of the art of research in this field. The volume focuses on regions as diverse as Africa, the Caribbean, the Antipodes and Asia, but also promotes a globally comparative perspective by analyzing selected characteristics of the English language across a wide range of varieties. Methodologically, a number of different approaches are applied, including corpus linguistic studies, socio-phonetics as well as historical discourse analysis. Due to its wide scope, the book is of interest not only to World Englishes scholars but also to sociolinguists as well as applied, contact or corpus linguists.
[Varieties of English Around the World, G40] 2009. xix, 436 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Series editor’s preface: The World Englishes conference in Regensburg 2007 – a retrospective lookEdgar W. Schneider | pp. ix–xii
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Acknowledgements | pp. xiii–xiv
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IntroductionThomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers | pp. xv–xx
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Deracialising the GOOSE vowel in South African English: Accelerated linguistic change amongst young, middle class females in post-apartheid South AfricaRajend Mesthrie | pp. 3–18
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Codifying Ghanaian English: Problems and prospectsJemima Anderson | pp. 19–36
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Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: Studying educated spoken usage in Jamaica on the basis of the International Corpus of EnglishChristian Mair | pp. 39–60
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Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English: An analysis of the spoken component of ICE-JamaicaIngrid Rosenfelder | pp. 61–82
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Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad: Problems — properties — prospectsDagmar Deuber | pp. 83–104
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Australian English as a regional epicenterPam Peters | pp. 107–124
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Finding one’s own vowel space: An acoustic analysis of the speech of Niuean New ZealandersLaura Thompson, Catherine I. Watson and Donna Starks | pp. 125–140
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Language in Hong Kong: Ten years on (1997–2007)Jonathan J. Webster | pp. 143–154
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The roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systemsRichard Powell | pp. 155–178
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Not just an “Outer Circle”, “Asian” English: Singapore English and the significance of ecologyLisa Lim | pp. 179–206
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“Where’s the party yaar!”: Discourse particles in Indian EnglishClaudia Lange | pp. 207–226
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Innovation in second language phonology: Evidence from Hong Kong EnglishTony T.N. Hung | pp. 227–238
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Intelligibility assessment of Japanese accents: A phonological study of science major students’ speechMasako Tsuzuki and Sachiko Nakamura | pp. 239–262
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World Englishes between simplification and complexificationBernd Kortmann and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi | pp. 263–286
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Global feature — local norms? A case study on the progressive passiveMarianne Hundt | pp. 287–308
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The shared core of the perfect across Englishes: A corpus-based analysisBertus van Rooy | pp. 309–330
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Word-formation in New Englishes: Properties and trendsThomas Biermeier | pp. 331–350
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The indigenization of English in North AmericaSalikoko S. Mufwene | pp. 353–368
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Perspectives on English as a lingua francaMargie Berns, Jennifer Jenkins, Marko Modiano, Barbara Seidlhofer and Yasukata Yano | pp. 369–384
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A discourse-historical approach to the English native speakerStephanie Hackert | pp. 385–406
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World Englishes and Peace Sociolinguistics: Towards a common goal of linguistic understandingPatricia Friedrich | pp. 407–414
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New voices in the canon: The case for including World Englishes in literatureJill Hallett | pp. 415–432
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Index | pp. 433–436
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WEPPP is noteworthy not only for its outstanding papers, but also for the fact that it contains papers from the first IAWE conference held in Europe, the birthplace of “Euro- English”. The high quality of the many corpus-based papers in the volume makes it a very valuable addition to the literature on the phenomenon of English world-wide...With both regionally focused contributions as well as general, theoretically-oriented papers based on various kinds of data, especially from the ICE project, WEPPP makes an excellent textbook of supplementary readings for a course in world Englishes or for that matter in the broader field of sociolinguistics.”
Robert J. Baumgardner, in World Englishes 31(1): 130-133, 2012
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFB: Sociolinguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General