World Englishes : New Theoretical and Methodological Considerations.
Seoane, Elena.
World Englishes : New Theoretical and Methodological Considerations. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (295 pages) - Varieties of English Around the World Series ; v.G57 . - Varieties of English Around the World Series .
Intro -- World Englishes -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- World Englishes today -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Key publications, resources and models for the study of World Englishes -- 3. This volume -- References -- Beyond and between the "Three Circles": World Englishes research in the age of globalisation -- 1. Introduction: English - one of the world's 7,000 languages, and yet a language like no other? -- 2. Defining the place of English linguistics in the wider field of English Language Studies -- 3. Augmentation -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Error, feature, (incipient) change - or something else altogether? -- 1. Introduction: The corpus linguist's 'lucky dip' -- 2. Metalinguistic comments and native speaker intuitions -- 2.1 Metalinguistic comments -- 2.2 Native speaker judgement survey -- 3. Corpus data -- 3.1 New Englishes -- 3.2 British and American English -- 3.3 Historical evidence -- 3.4 Dialects -- 3.5 Child language use -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Grammatical variation vs. spelling variation -- 4.2 be-been as a variant of the perfect: Error, feature, (incipient) change or something else? -- 5. Concluding remarks and outlook -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- References -- "He don't like football, does he?" A corpus-based study of third person singular don' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Don't versus doesn't: Origin and presence in different varieties of English -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results -- 4.1 General frequency of don't versus doesn't in adults and teenagers -- 4.2 Tags versus non-tags in the language of adults and teenagers -- 4.3 Grammatical factors that condition the third person singular form don't -- 4.4 Sociolinguistic factors -- 5. Summary and conclusions -- Sources -- References -- Standards of English in the Caribbean: History, attitudes, functions, features. 1. Introduction -- 2. History -- 3. Attitudes and functions -- 3.1 Attitudes: From 'bad' and 'proper' English to endonormative standards -- 3.2 Functions: Language use in the media and in education -- 4. Features -- 4.1 Written English in the Caribbean: Newspaper studies -- 4.2 Spoken English in the Caribbean: The English-creole continuum revisited -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Overlap and divergence - aspects of the present perfect in World Englishes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. A global perspective -- 4. From the center -- 5. to the margins -- 6. The present perfect and models of World Englishes -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- (Semi-)modals of necessity in Hong Kong and Indian Englishes -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The decline of English modal verbs -- 1.2 Modals and semi-modals in World Englishes -- 1.3 Aim and structure -- 2. Semi-modals of necessity in the three varieties -- 3. Semantic analysis of the (semi-)modals in BrE, HKE and IndE -- 3.1 Must: Semantic analysis -- 3.2 Have to, have got to and got to: Semantic analysis -- 3.3 Need (to): semantic analysis -- 3.4 Want to: Semantic analysis -- 4. Morphosyntactic analysis of the (semi-)modals in the BrE, HKE and IndE -- 4.1 Subject -- 4.2 Type of sentential complement -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Indian English quotatives in a real-time perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 What is quotation? -- 1.2 The history of quotatives in native English -- 1.3 Quotative marking as a system -- 2. Data and method -- 3. Distributional analysis -- 4. Multivariate analyses -- 5. Discussion of findings -- 6. Conclusions and outlook -- References -- English in San Francisco Chinatown: Indexing identity with speech rhythm? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ethnicity, identity and linguistic variation -- 3. Linguistic background -- 4. Data and methodology. 5. Results -- 5.1 Ethnic identity scores -- 5.2 Speech rhythm -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- On the globalization of English: Observations of subjective progressives in present-day Englishes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Recent changes in the progressive structure -- 2.2 Focusing on the always-type progressive -- 3. Materials and methods -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Quantitative observations -- 4.2 Combining quantitative and qualitative observations -- 5. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- World Englishes on YouTube: Treasure trove or nightmare? -- 1. Introduction: World Englishes and YouTube -- 2. YouTube: General characteristics and statistics -- 3. Linguistics and language varieties on YouTube -- 4. World Englishes on YouTube -- 4.1 A basic typology -- 4.2 Sub-types -- 5. Tracing and analyzing World Englishes on YouTube: Methodological issues -- 6. Conclusion: What for? -- References -- Index.
This book provides a collection of articles that reflect the current state of affairs in the blossoming field of World Englishes by bringing together several innovative synchronic and diachronic approaches.
9789027267061
English language--Variation--English-speaking countries.
Electronic books.
PE1066
427
World Englishes : New Theoretical and Methodological Considerations. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (295 pages) - Varieties of English Around the World Series ; v.G57 . - Varieties of English Around the World Series .
Intro -- World Englishes -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- World Englishes today -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Key publications, resources and models for the study of World Englishes -- 3. This volume -- References -- Beyond and between the "Three Circles": World Englishes research in the age of globalisation -- 1. Introduction: English - one of the world's 7,000 languages, and yet a language like no other? -- 2. Defining the place of English linguistics in the wider field of English Language Studies -- 3. Augmentation -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Error, feature, (incipient) change - or something else altogether? -- 1. Introduction: The corpus linguist's 'lucky dip' -- 2. Metalinguistic comments and native speaker intuitions -- 2.1 Metalinguistic comments -- 2.2 Native speaker judgement survey -- 3. Corpus data -- 3.1 New Englishes -- 3.2 British and American English -- 3.3 Historical evidence -- 3.4 Dialects -- 3.5 Child language use -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Grammatical variation vs. spelling variation -- 4.2 be-been as a variant of the perfect: Error, feature, (incipient) change or something else? -- 5. Concluding remarks and outlook -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- References -- "He don't like football, does he?" A corpus-based study of third person singular don' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Don't versus doesn't: Origin and presence in different varieties of English -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results -- 4.1 General frequency of don't versus doesn't in adults and teenagers -- 4.2 Tags versus non-tags in the language of adults and teenagers -- 4.3 Grammatical factors that condition the third person singular form don't -- 4.4 Sociolinguistic factors -- 5. Summary and conclusions -- Sources -- References -- Standards of English in the Caribbean: History, attitudes, functions, features. 1. Introduction -- 2. History -- 3. Attitudes and functions -- 3.1 Attitudes: From 'bad' and 'proper' English to endonormative standards -- 3.2 Functions: Language use in the media and in education -- 4. Features -- 4.1 Written English in the Caribbean: Newspaper studies -- 4.2 Spoken English in the Caribbean: The English-creole continuum revisited -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Overlap and divergence - aspects of the present perfect in World Englishes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. A global perspective -- 4. From the center -- 5. to the margins -- 6. The present perfect and models of World Englishes -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- (Semi-)modals of necessity in Hong Kong and Indian Englishes -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The decline of English modal verbs -- 1.2 Modals and semi-modals in World Englishes -- 1.3 Aim and structure -- 2. Semi-modals of necessity in the three varieties -- 3. Semantic analysis of the (semi-)modals in BrE, HKE and IndE -- 3.1 Must: Semantic analysis -- 3.2 Have to, have got to and got to: Semantic analysis -- 3.3 Need (to): semantic analysis -- 3.4 Want to: Semantic analysis -- 4. Morphosyntactic analysis of the (semi-)modals in the BrE, HKE and IndE -- 4.1 Subject -- 4.2 Type of sentential complement -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Indian English quotatives in a real-time perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 What is quotation? -- 1.2 The history of quotatives in native English -- 1.3 Quotative marking as a system -- 2. Data and method -- 3. Distributional analysis -- 4. Multivariate analyses -- 5. Discussion of findings -- 6. Conclusions and outlook -- References -- English in San Francisco Chinatown: Indexing identity with speech rhythm? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ethnicity, identity and linguistic variation -- 3. Linguistic background -- 4. Data and methodology. 5. Results -- 5.1 Ethnic identity scores -- 5.2 Speech rhythm -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- On the globalization of English: Observations of subjective progressives in present-day Englishes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Recent changes in the progressive structure -- 2.2 Focusing on the always-type progressive -- 3. Materials and methods -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Quantitative observations -- 4.2 Combining quantitative and qualitative observations -- 5. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- World Englishes on YouTube: Treasure trove or nightmare? -- 1. Introduction: World Englishes and YouTube -- 2. YouTube: General characteristics and statistics -- 3. Linguistics and language varieties on YouTube -- 4. World Englishes on YouTube -- 4.1 A basic typology -- 4.2 Sub-types -- 5. Tracing and analyzing World Englishes on YouTube: Methodological issues -- 6. Conclusion: What for? -- References -- Index.
This book provides a collection of articles that reflect the current state of affairs in the blossoming field of World Englishes by bringing together several innovative synchronic and diachronic approaches.
9789027267061
English language--Variation--English-speaking countries.
Electronic books.
PE1066
427