Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century : : Language, Society and Culture /

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

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, Micronesi...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 38 B/W illustrations 48 B/W tables
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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

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