World Englishes--problems, properties and prospects selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference / edited by Thomas Hoffmann, Lucia Siebers.

Author/creator International Association for World Englishes
Other author Hoffmann, Thomas, 1976-
Other author Siebers, Lucia.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
Descriptionxix, 436 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Subjects
English language--Variation. --English-speaking countries. --Congresses.
English language--Variation. --Foreign countries. --Congresses.
English language--English-speaking countries. --Congresses.
English language--English-speaking countries. --Congresses.
English language--Foreign countries. --Congresses.
Communication, International--Congresses.
Intercultural communication--Congresses.

SeriesVarieties of English around the world. General series, 0172-7362 ; v. 40
Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 40. ^A521996
Contents Series editor's preface: the World Englishes conference in Regensburg 2007 : a retrospective look / Edgar W. Schneider -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers -- Africa. Deracialising the GOOSE vowel in South African English: accelerated linguistic change amongst young, middle class females in post-apartheid South Africa / Rajend Mesthrie -- Codifying Ghanaian English: problems and prospects / Jemima Asabea Anderson -- The Caribbean. Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: Studying educated spoken usage in Jamaica on the basis of the international corpus of English / Christian Mair -- Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English: An analysis of the spoken component of ICE-Jamaica / Ingrid Rosenfelder -- Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad: problems, properties, prospects / Dagmar Deuber -- Australia and New Zealand. Australian English as a regional epicenter / Pam Peters -- Finding one's own vowel space: an acoustic analysis of the speech of Niuean New Zealanders / Laura Thompson, Catherine I. Watson and Donna Starks -- Asia. Language in Hong Kong: ten years on (1997-2007) / Jonathan J. Webster -- The roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systems / Richard Powell -- Not just an "Outer circle", "Asian" English: Singapore English and the significance of ecology / Lisa Lim -- "Where's the party yaar!": discourse particles in Indian English / Claudia Lange -- Innovation in second language phonology: evidence from Hong Kong English / Tony T.N. Hung -- Intelligibility assessment of Japanese accents: a phonological study of science major students' speech / Masako Tsuzuki and Sachiko Nakamura -- Comparative studies. World Englishes between simplification and complexification / Bernd Kortmann and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi -- Global feature, local norms?: A case study on the progressive passive / Marianne Hundt -- The shared core of the perfect across Englishes: a corpus-based analysis / Bertus van Rooy -- Word-formation in New Englishes: properties and trends / Thomas Biermeier -- New approaches. The indigenization of English in North America / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- Perspectives on English as a lingua franca / Margie Berns ... [et al.] -- A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker / Stephanie Hackert -- World Englishes and Peace Sociolinguistics: towards a common goal of linguistic understanding / Patricia Friedrich -- New voices in the canon: the case for including world Englishes in literature / Jill Hallett -- Index.
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