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Modeling World Englishes: Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties
Edited by Sandra C. Deshors
[Varieties of English Around the World G61] 2018
► pp. 281–294

Modeling World Englishes in the 21st century

New reflections on model-making

| Michigan State University
| Université catholique de Louvain

This chapter seeks to bring together all the contributions in the volume. We identify converging lines of argumentation and findings across the studies featured in the book and we show how the approaches they adopt and the linguistic patterns they uncover shed new light on globalized Englishes, the diversity of their uses and their emerging functions. Based on these studies, we discuss possible avenues for future research in the modeling process of World Englishes (WEs) and we make suggestions as to what contemporary theoretical models of WEs should look like in order to truly capture the developmental patterns of WEs in the 21st century. Generally, it emerges that theoretical models anchored in the ‘moment of communication’ are likely to reflect most effectively the intricate dynamics that lies behind the development of Englishes worldwide and that is stirred by linguistic, pragmatic, social, ideological and cultural forces, simultaneously.

Keywords: modeling World Englishes, core aspects of theoretical models, ‘communicative event’ approach, dynamics of World Englishes
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Core aspects of 21st-century modeling of Englishes
    • 2.1Modes of communication and digital Englishes
    • 2.2Genres of expression
    • 2.3Multilingual settings
    • 2.4Ideologies and identity construction
  • 3.Model-making in the 21st century: Looking forward
    • 3.1The communicative event as a possible ‘focal point’ for 21st-century models
    • 3.2The 21st century speaker within a ‘communicative event’ approach
    • 3.3Implications of the ‘communicative event’ approach for the categorization of English varieties
    • 3.4Implications of the ‘communicative event’ approach for the notion of norm
    • 3.5Methodological implications
  • 4.Concluding remarks
  • References
Published online: 13 September 2018
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