Acquisition and Variation in World Englishes : : Bridging Paradigms and Rethinking Approaches / / ed. by Thorsten Brato, Mirjam Schmalz, Sarah Buschfeld, Manuela Vida-Mannl.

• HerausgeberIn: Brato, Thorsten,; Buschfeld, Sarah,; Schmalz, Mirjam,; Vida-Mannl, Manuela,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; 2024
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 69
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 382 p.)

This book is the first of its kind to provide an integrative look at World Englishes, (second) language acquisition, and sociolinguistics in a variety of contexts of English around the globe with a focus on the language of children and adolescents. It thus aims to bridge the paradigm gaps that have been identified between these approaches but have rarely been explored in greater detail. The range of topics includes the areas of first and second language acquisition; sociolinguistic variation and awareness; language use and choice; family language policies; language attitudes and perception; modelling children's and adolescents' language in World Englishes; the role of child language acquisition in processes of language change; as well as methodologies of eliciting speech and writing from children and adolescents. The book combines qualitative and quantitative approaches and draws on psycholinguistic, corpus-linguistic, and ethnographic methodologies. What unites the contributions to the volume is that they all address the theoretical implications that a joint approach between World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition has, i.e. why it is fruitful and how it can contribute to a deeper understanding of the different research paradigms.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 The current role of children and adolescents in World Englishes research -- Part I: Language in the family -- 2 Language among Trinidadian-heritage children raised in diaspora -- 3 Language use patterns and strategies for children's English language development: Insights from Chinese descendant mothers in multilingual Malaysia -- 4 Family language policies in Thailand: Multiliteracy practices and Global Englishes -- 5 Parental language ideologies and children's language use in Singapore - raising speakers of "Standard" English? -- Part II: Language acquisition and language learning in multilingual contexts -- 6 Syntactic and lexical complexity in CLIL and EFL written production: Evidence for ELF as a WEs paradigm in Turkey -- 7 Investigating child language acquisition from a joint perspective: A comparison of traditional and new L1 speakers of English -- 8 Speech rhythm in Cameroon English: A cross-generational study -- 9 From second to first language: Language shift in Singapore and Ireland -- Part III: Attitudes and identity -- 10 Children's language attitudes in a World Englishes community: A focus on St. Kitts -- 11 Youth identity as linguistic identity: Political engagement and language acquisition and use in Hong Kong -- 12 Varieties of English and Third Culture Kids in Hong Kong -- 13 Variation and change in the NURSE vowel in Trinidadian English: An apparent-time analysis of adolescent and adult speakers -- 14 How linguistically tolerant or insecure are school-aged children? A matched-guise, gamified approach for 6- to 12-year-olds in Canada -- 15 Caught between languages and cultures: Exploring linguistic and cultural identity among Maldivian adolescents -- Part IV: Summary and discussion -- 16 Conclusion and envoi: Language acquisition at the intersection of sociolinguistics and World Englishes research -- Index