Full Description
This collection highlights the adaptability of English in contact with other languages, cultures and societies in diverse regional habitats. 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.
Contents
Chapter 1: Exploring the ecology of World Englishes in the twenty-first century: Language, society and culturePam Peters and Kate BurridgeChapter 2: Platform Paper: Reflections of cultures in corpus texts: Focus on the Indo-Pacific regionEdgar W. SchneiderChapter 3 :Reflections of Afrikaans in the English short stories of Herman Charles BosmanBertus van RooyChapter 4: Susmaryosep! Lexical evidence of cultural influence in Philippine EnglishLoy LisingChapter 5: Cultural keywords in Indian EnglishPam PetersChapter 6: Lexicopragmatics between cultural heritage and exonormative second language acquisition: Address terms, greetings and discourse markers in Ugandan EnglishChristiane Meierkord and Bebwa IsingomaChapter 7: Cultural relations? Kinship terminology in three islands in the Northern PacificSara Lynch, Eva Kuske and Dominique B. HessChapter 8: Somewhere between Australia and Malaysia and 'I' and 'we': Verbalising Culture on the Cocos (Keeling) IslandsHannah HedegardChapter 9: Expressing Concepts Metaphorically in English Editorials in the Sinosphere Kathleen Ahrens and Winnie Huiheng ZengChapter 10: L1 Singapore English: The influence of ethnicity and input Sarah BuschfeldChapter 11: Across three Kachruvian Circles with two parts-of-speech: Nouns and verbs in ENL, ESL and EFL varieties Tobias Bernaisch and Sandra GötzChapter 12: Modality, rhetoric and regionality in English editorials in the SinospherePam Peters, Tobias Bernaisch and Kathleen AhrensChapter 13: Where grammar meets culture: Pronominal systems in Australasia and the South Pacific revisitedKate Burridge and Carolin BiewerChapter 14: Decolonisation and neo-colonialism in Aboriginal educationIan G. MalcolmChapter 15: Modal and semi-modal verbs of obligation in the Australian, New Zealand and British Hansard: 1901-2015Adam Smith, Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Bertus van RooyChapter 16: Privileging informality: Cultural influences on the structural patterning of Australian EnglishIsabelle Burke and Kate BurridgeChapter 17: The Auckland Voices Project: Language change in a changing cityMiriam Meyerhoff, Elaine Ballard, Helen Charters, Alexandra Birchfield and Catherine I. Watson
