Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century : : Language, Society and Culture / / Pam Peters, Kate Burridge.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Peters, Pam,; Burridge, Kate,
• MitwirkendeR: Ahrens, Kathleen,; Ballard, Elaine,; Bernaisch, Tobias,; Biewer, Carolin,; Birchfield, Alexandra,; Burke, Isabelle,; Burridge, Kate,; Buschfeld, Sarah,; Charters, Helen,; Götz, Sandra,; Hedegard, Hannah,; Hess, Dominique B.,; Isingoma, Bebwa,; Korhonen, Minna,; Kotze, Haidee,; Kuske, Eva,; Lising, Loy,; Lynch, Sara,; Malcolm, Ian G.,; Meierkord, Christiane,; Meyerhoff, Miriam,; Peters, Pam,; Rooy, Bertus van,; Schneider, Edgar W.,; Smith, Adam,; Watson, Catherine I.,; Zeng, Winnie Huiheng,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 38 B/W illustrations 48 B/W tables

Highlights the adaptability of English in contact with other languages, cultures and societies and in diverse regional habitatsExamines features of world Englishes in their sociocultural contexts, with studies on in South Africa, the Cocos Island, Singapore, Uganda, China, the Philippines, Micronesia, Australia, New ZealandAppraises lexical and constructional innovations in English Presents fresh empirical evidence to discuss language variation using data from text corpora, speech recordings, social surveys and interviewsBrings together an international range of contributors from Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, Uganda and South AfricaThe 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgement -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century: Language, Society and Culture -- CHAPTER 2 Platform Paper: Reflections of Cultures in Corpus Texts: Focus on the Indo-Pacific Region -- CHAPTER 3 Reflections of Afrikaans in the English Short Stories of Herman Charles Bosman -- CHAPTER 4 Susmaryosep! Lexical Evidence of Cultural Influence in Philippine English -- CHAPTER 5 Cultural Keywords in Indian English -- CHAPTER 6 Lexicopragmatics between Cultural Heritage and Exonormative Second Language Acquisition: Address Terms, Greetings and Discourse Markers in Ugandan English -- CHAPTER 7 Cultural Relations? Kinship Terminology in Three Islands in the Northern Pacific -- CHAPTER 8 Somewhere between Australia and Malaysia and ‘I’ and ‘we’: Verbalising Culture on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands -- CHAPTER 9 Expressing Concepts Metaphorically in English Editorials in the Sinosphere -- CHAPTER 10 L1 Singapore English: The Influence of Ethnicity and Input -- CHAPTER 11 Across Three Kachruvian Circles with Two Parts-of-speech: Nouns and Verbs in ENL, ESL and EFL Varieties -- CHAPTER 12 Modality, Rhetoric and Regionality in English Editorials in the Sinosphere -- CHAPTER 13 Where Grammar Meets Culture: Pronominal Systems in Australasia and the South Pacific Revisited -- CHAPTER 14 Decolonisation and Neo-colonialism in Aboriginal Education -- CHAPTER 15 Modal and Semi-modal Verbs of Obligation in the Australian, New Zealand and British Hansards, 1901–2015 -- CHAPTER 16 Privileging Informality: Cultural Influences on the Structural Patterning of Australian English -- CHAPTER 17 The Auckland Voices Project: Language Change in a Changing City -- Index