Overview

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.

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Author:   Thomas Hoffmann (University of Regensburg) ,  Lucia Siebers (University of Regensburg)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   G40
Weight:   0.995kg
ISBN:  

9789027249005

ISBN 10:   9027249008
Pages:   436
Publication Date:   23 September 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Series editor's preface: The World Englishes conference in Regensburg 2007 - a retrospective look (by Schneider, Edgar W.); 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Introduction (by Hoffmann, Thomas); 4. Deracialising the GOOSE vowel in South African English: Accelerated linguistic change amongst young, middle class females in post-apartheid South Africa (by Mesthrie, Rajend); 5. Codifying Ghanaian English: Problems and prospects (by Anderson, Jemima); 6. Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: Studying educated spoken usage in Jamaica on the basis of the International Corpus of English (by Mair, Christian); 7. Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English: An analysis of the spoken component of ICE-Jamaica (by Rosenfelder, Ingrid); 8. Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad: Problems - properties - prospects (by Deuber, Dagmar); 9. Australian English as a regional epicenter (by Peters, Pam); 10. Finding one's own vowel space: An acoustic analysis of the speech of Niuean New Zealanders (by Thompson, Laura); 11. Language in Hong Kong: Ten years on (1997-2007) (by Webster, Jonathan J.); 12. The roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systems (by Powell, Richard); 13. Not just an Outer Circle , Asian English: Singapore English and the significance of ecology (by Lim, Lisa); 14. Where's the party yaar! : Discourse particles in Indian English (by Lange, Claudia); 15. Innovation in second language phonology: Evidence from Hong Kong English (by Hung, Tony T.N.); 16. Intelligibility assessment of Japanese accents: A phonological study of science major students' speech (by Tsuzuki, Masako); 17. World Englishes between simplification and complexification (by Kortmann, Bernd); 18. Global feature - local norms?: A case study on the progressive passive (by Hundt, Marianne); 19. The shared core of the perfect across Englishes: A corpus-based analysis (by Rooy, Bertus van); 20. Word-formation in New Englishes: Properties and trends (by Biermeier, Thomas); 21. The indigenization of English in North America (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 22. Perspectives on English as a lingua franca (by Berns, Margie); 23. A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker (by Hackert, Stephanie); 24. World Englishes and Peace Sociolinguistics: Towards a common goal of linguistic understanding (by Friedrich, Patricia); 25. New voices in the canon: The case for including World Englishes in literature (by Hallett, Jill); 26. Index

Reviews

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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