World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects

Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference

Editors

Thomas Hoffmann

| University of Regensburg

Lucia Siebers

| University of Regensburg

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027249005 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g40

Table of Contents

Series editor’s preface: The World Englishes conference in Regensburg 2007 – a retrospective look Edgar W. Schneider	ix–xii
Acknowledgements	xiii–xiv
Introduction Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers	xv–xx
Deracialising the GOOSE vowel in South African English: Accelerated linguistic change amongst young, middle class females in post-apartheid South Africa Rajend Mesthrie	3–18
Codifying Ghanaian English: Problems and prospects Jemima Anderson	19–36
Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: Studying educated spoken usage in Jamaica on the basis of the International Corpus of English Christian Mair	39–60
Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English: An analysis of the spoken component of ICE-Jamaica Ingrid Rosenfelder	61–82
Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad: Problems — properties — prospects Dagmar Deuber	83–104
Australian English as a regional epicenter Pam Peters	107–124
Finding one’s own vowel space: An acoustic analysis of the speech of Niuean New Zealanders Laura Thompson, Catherine I. Watson and Donna Starks	125–140
Language in Hong Kong: Ten years on (1997–2007) Jonathan J. Webster	143–154
The roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systems Richard Powell	155–178
Not just an “Outer Circle”, “Asian” English: Singapore English and the significance of ecology Lisa Lim	179–206
“Where’s the party yaar!” Discourse particles in Indian English Claudia Lange	207–226
Innovation in second language phonology: Evidence from Hong Kong English Tony T.N. Hung	227–238
Intelligibility assessment of Japanese accents: A phonological study of science major students’ speech Masako Tsuzuki and Sachiko Nakamura	239–262
World Englishes between simplification and complexification Bernd Kortmann and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi	263–286
Global feature — local norms? A case study on the progressive passive Marianne Hundt	287–308
The shared core of the perfect across Englishes: A corpus-based analysis Bertus van Rooy	309–330
Word-formation in New Englishes: Properties and trends Thomas Biermeier	331–350
The indigenization of English in North America Salikoko S. Mufwene	353–368
Perspectives on English as a lingua franca Margie Berns, Jennifer Jenkins, Marko Modiano, Barbara Seidlhofer and Yasukata Yano	369–384
A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker Stephanie Hackert	385–406
World Englishes and Peace Sociolinguistics: Towards a common goal of linguistic understanding Patricia Friedrich	407–414
New voices in the canon: The case for including World Englishes in literature Jill Hallett	415–432
Index	433–436

“ 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

Linguistics

English linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFB – Sociolinguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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