Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century: Language, Society and Culture

Pam Peters; Kate Burridge

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century

Language, Society and Culture

Pam Peters and Kate Burridge

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474462877

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Highlights the adaptability of English in contact with other languages, cultures and societies and in diverse regional habitats

Examines features of world Englishes in their sociocultural contexts, with studies on in South Africa, the Cocos Island, Singapore, Uganda, China, the Philippines, Micronesia, Australia, New Zealand
Appraises lexical and constructional innovations in English
Presents fresh empirical evidence to discuss language variation using data from text corpora, speech recordings, social surveys and interviews
Brings together an international range of contributors from Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, Uganda and South Africa

The book’s ecological perspective offers a fresh theoretical framework for analysing both outer- and inner-circle Englishes. It investigates the varieties of English spoken as a second language, by bi- or multilingual speakers in South Africa, India, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines, and by some lesser-known oceanic varieties in Micronesia and Polynesia, revealing the remarkable divergences in the use of common English elements across geographical distances.

Tapping into current debates about colonial legacies and decolonization, as well as ongoing concerns about democracy, regional power and globalisation, this book explores a range of fresh evidence to discuss language variation across the globe.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgement Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century: Language, Society and Culture Pam Peters and Kate Burridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2 Platform Paper: Reflections of Cultures in Corpus Texts: Focus on the Indo-Pacific Region Edgar W. Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
CHAPTER 3 Reflections of Afrikaans in the English Short Stories of Herman Charles Bosman Bertus van Rooy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
CHAPTER 4 Susmaryosep! Lexical Evidence of Cultural Influence in Philippine English Loy Lising Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
CHAPTER 5 Cultural Keywords in Indian English Pam Peters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
CHAPTER 6 Lexicopragmatics between Cultural Heritage and Exonormative Second Language Acquisition: Address Terms, Greetings and Discourse Markers in Ugandan English Christiane Meierkord and Bebwa Isingoma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
CHAPTER 7 Cultural Relations? Kinship Terminology in Three Islands in the Northern Pacific Sara Lynch, Eva Kuske and Dominique B. Hess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
CHAPTER 8 Somewhere between Australia and Malaysia and ‘I’ and ‘we’: Verbalising Culture on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hannah Hedegard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
CHAPTER 9 Expressing Concepts Metaphorically in English Editorials in the Sinosphere Kathleen Ahrens and Winnie Huiheng Zeng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
CHAPTER 10 L1 Singapore English: The Influence of Ethnicity and Input Sarah Buschfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
CHAPTER 11 Across Three Kachruvian Circles with Two Parts-of-speech: Nouns and Verbs in ENL, ESL and EFL Varieties Tobias Bernaisch and Sandra Götz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
CHAPTER 12 Modality, Rhetoric and Regionality in English Editorials in the Sinosphere Pam Peters, Tobias Bernaisch and Kathleen Ahrens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
CHAPTER 13 Where Grammar Meets Culture: Pronominal Systems in Australasia and the South Pacific Revisited Kate Burridge and Carolin Biewer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
CHAPTER 14 Decolonisation and Neo-colonialism in Aboriginal Education Ian G. Malcolm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
CHAPTER 15 Modal and Semi-modal Verbs of Obligation in the Australian, New Zealand and British Hansards, 1901–2015 Adam Smith, Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Bertus van Rooy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
CHAPTER 16 Privileging Informality: Cultural Influences on the Structural Patterning of Australian English Isabelle Burke and Kate Burridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
CHAPTER 17 The Auckland Voices Project: Language Change in a Changing City Miriam Meyerhoff, Elaine Ballard, Helen Charters, Alexandra Birchfield and Catherine I. Watson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 392
Illustrations
- Other: 38 B/W illustrations 48 B/W tables
Keywords: Language & Linguistics

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474462877