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Subject(s)

• English language—Variation—English-speaking countries—Congresses [Browse]
• English language—Variation—Foreign countries—Congresses [Browse]
• English language—English-speaking countries—Congresses [Browse]
• English language—Foreign countries—Congresses [Browse]
• Communication, International—Congresses [Browse]
• Intercultural communication—Congresses [Browse]

Related name

• Hoffmann, Thomas, 1976- [Browse]
• Siebers, Lucia [Browse]

Series

Varieties of English around the world, 0172-7362 ; G40

Summary note

Literature in non-canonical Englishes is infused with distinct culture, history, and politics. Should the creative writer adhere strictly to traditional English literary norms, language use would seem artificial and unconvincing, and social nuances would be lost. This paper tests this hypothesis with African-American English (AAE) literature. One passage was scanned for AAE features, and examined for social nuances these features convey. European-American and African-American respondents received passages as written and with AAE features deleted, with follow-up questionnaires. Results indicate connections made between language used in the text and identification of character background and desire to read more by this author. The function of non-traditional linguistic elements is demonstrated, supporting their inclusion in pedagogical texts.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

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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ISBN

• 1-282-31233-2
• 9786612312335
• 90-272-8906-9

OCLC

505429170

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