Full Description
This book provides readers with an in- depth understanding of the methodological tools that have to date been implemented within World Englishes (WE) research.
It serves as a tool to allow for better methodological rigour in interpreting prior research, as well as in conducting future research in this important area of sociolinguistic investigation. This book explores various methodological tools, ranging from corpus analysis to ethnography to questionnaires, demonstrating how such approaches have been used to address a wide range of empirical topics common to WE research. With chapters dedicated to specifi c methodological approaches and demonstrating these approaches in context, readers are provided with the knowledge necessary to both pursue future empirical inquiry as well as consider existing research from a critical perspective. The book will also explain the similarities and differences that exist between WE and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and English as an International Language (EIL).
Contents
List of figures; List of contributors; Foreword: researching World Englishes (Kingsley Bolton); Introduction (Peter I. De Costa); 1. World Englishes, ELF, and EIL (Dustin Crowther and Jeffrey Maloney) PART I Methods of empirical inquiry; 2. Corpus approaches to World Englishes: a bird's-eye view (Sandra C. Deshors and Tobias Bernaisch); 3. Ethnography: connecting the local and the global (Jeffrey Maloney and Matt Kessler); 4. The use of surveys and questionnaires in World Englishes research (Ying-Ying Tan); PART II Usage of methodological tools in empirical research; 5. Applying corpus methods to explore World Englishes: a practical perspective (Tobias Bernaisch and Sandra C. Deshors); 6. The use of ethnography in World Englishes (Matt Kessler and Jeffrey Maloney); 7. On attitudes, intelligibility, and perception: cases of studies in World Englishes using surveys and questionnaires (Ying-Ying Tan); PART III World Englishes in the classroom; 8. Addressing pedagogical inquiry in World Englishes (Dustin Crowther); Afterword: World Englishes, methodology, and points of view (Daniel R. Davis); Index
