Full Description
This two-part volume provides a collection of 27 linguistic studies and contributions that shed light on the evolution of different Englishes world-wide (varieties, learner Englishes, dialects, creoles) from a broad spectrum of different perspectives, including both synchronic and diachronic approaches. What makes the volume unique is that it is the first-ever contribution to the field which includes a section exclusively commited towards testing, discussing and refining Schneider's (2007) Dynamic Model against recent realities of English world-wide (Part 1). These realities include a wide variety of case studies ranging from regions (socio)linguistically as diverse as South Africa, the Phillipines, Cyprus or Germany. Part 2 goes beyond the Dynamic Model and offers both empirical and theoretical perspectives on the evolution of World Englishes. In doing so, it provides contributions with a theoretical focus on the topic as well as cross-varietal accounts; it sheds light on individual Englishes from different geographical regions and offers new perspectives on "old" varieties.
Contents
1. Series editor's preface (by Hackert, Stephanie); 2. Editors' preface: The evolution of Englishes: In honour of Edgar Schneider on the occasion of his 60th birthday (by Buschfeld, Sarah); 3. Introduction (by Buschfeld, Sarah); 4. Part I: The Dynamic Model; 5. Convergence and endonormativity at Phase Four of the Dynamic Model (by Rooy, Bertus van); 6. The identity issue in bi- and multilingual repertoires in South Africa: Implications for Schneider's Dynamic Model (by Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan); 7. The sociophonetic effects of Event X: Post-apartheid Black South African English in multicultural contact with other South African Englishes (by Mesthrie, Rajend); 8. Beyond Nativization? Philippine English in Schneider's Dynamic Model (by Pefianco Martin, Isabel); 9. Stylistic and sociolinguistic variation in Schneider's Nativization Phase: T-affrication and relativization in Ghanaian English (by Huber, Magnus); 10. Differentiation in Australian English (by Peters, Pam); 11. The Evolution of Singlish: Beyond Phase 5? (by Wee, Lionel); 12. Emergence of "new varieties" in speech as a complex system (by Kretzschmar, Jr., William A.); 13. The cognitive evolution of Englishes: The role of constructions in the dynamic model (by Hoffmann, Thomas); 14. English in Cyprus and Namibia: A critical approach to taxonomies and models of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition research (by Buschfeld, Sarah); 15. English in Germany: Retreating exonormative orientation and incipient nativization (by Kautzsch, Alexander); 16. Part II: Beyond the Dynamic Model - Empirical and theoretical perspectives on World Englishes; 17. Focus 1: Contributions with a theoretical focus; 18. On cafeterias and new dialects: The role of primary transmitters (by Schreier, Daniel); 19. Does money talk, and do languages have price tags? Economic perspectives on English as a global language (by Mair, Christian); 20. Language variation and education: A focus on Pakistan (by Mahboob, Ahmar); 21. The evolution of English(es): Notes on the history of an idea (by Hackert, Stephanie); 22. Focus 2: Cross-varietal contributions; 23. At the crossroads of variation studies and corpus linguistics: The analysis of past tense and past participle forms (by Ramisch, Heinrich); 24. Compounding and Suffixation in World Englishes (by Biermeier, Thomas); 25. Focus 3: United States; 26. When did Southern American English really begin?: Testing Bailey's Hypothesis (by Montgomery, Michael); 27. The English origins of African American Vernacular English: What Edgar W. Schneider has taught us (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 28. Innovation in pre-World War II AAVE?: Evidence from BLUR (by Miethaner, Ulrich); 29. Focus 4: Asia and Africa; 30. Non-standard or new standards or errors?: The use of inflectional marking for present and past tenses in English as an Asian lingua franca (by Kirkpatrick, Andy); 31. Yesterday's founder population, today's Englishes: The role of the Peranakans in the (continuing) evolution of Singapore English (by Lim, Lisa); 32. The evolution of Brunei English: How it is contributing to the development of English in the world (by Deterding, David); 33. The evolutionary trajectory of Cameroonian Creole and its varying sociolinguistic statuses (by Ngefac, Aloysius); 34. Focus 5: Old varieties, new perspectives; 35. Lexical creativity reconsidered: GUI, cyborg, cred, pay-per-view, techno and cyber- (by Fischer, Roswitha); 36. The language of butchery, the UK's last public craft (by Upton, Clive); 37. A New Old English? The chances of an Anglo-Saxon revival on the Internet (by Neuland, Christina); 38. Name index; 39. Subject index
