World Englishes--problems, properties and prospects
Subtitle: selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference
By: edited by Thomas Hoffmann, Lucia Siebers.
Contributors: Hoffmann, Thomas, 1976-; Siebers, Lucia.
Series: Varieties of English around the world. General series -- v. 40; Varieties of English around the world -- v. 40.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9789027249005; 9789027289063
Subjects: English language -- Variation -- English-speaking countries -- Congresses; English language -- Variation -- Foreign countries -- Congresses; English language -- English-speaking countries -- Congresses; English language -- Foreign countries -- Congresses; Communication, International -- Congresses; Intercultural communication -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Series editor's preface: the World Englishes conference in Regensburg 2007 : a retrospective look / Edgar W. Schneider; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction / Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers; title: Africa. Deracialising the GOOSE vowel in South African English: accelerated linguistic change amongst young, middle class females in post-apartheid South Africa / Rajend Mesthrie; title: Codifying Ghanaian English: problems and prospects / Jemima Asabea Anderson; title: The Caribbean. Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: Studying educated spoken usage in Jamaica on the basis of the international corpus of English / Christian Mair; title: Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English: An analysis of the spoken component of ICE-Jamaica / Ingrid Rosenfelder; title: Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad: problems, properties, prospects / Dagmar Deuber; title: Australia and New Zealand. Australian English as a regional epicenter / Pam Peters; title: Finding one's own vowel space: an acoustic analysis of the speech of Niuean New Zealanders / Laura Thompson, Catherine I. Watson and Donna Starks; title: Asia. Language in Hong Kong: ten years on (1997-2007) / Jonathan J. Webster; title: The roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systems / Richard Powell; title: Not just an "Outer circle", "Asian" English: Singapore English and the significance of ecology / Lisa Lim; title: "Where's the party yaar!": discourse particles in Indian English / Claudia Lange; title: Innovation in second language phonology: evidence from Hong Kong English / Tony T.N. Hung; title: Intelligibility assessment of Japanese accents: a phonological study of science major students' speech / Masako Tsuzuki and Sachiko Nakamura; title: Comparative studies. World Englishes between simplification and complexification / Bernd Kortmann and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi; title: Global feature, local norms?: A case study on the progressive passive / Marianne Hundt; title: The shared core of the perfect across Englishes: a corpus-based analysis / Bertus van Rooy; title: Word-formation in New Englishes: properties and trends / Thomas Biermeier; title: New approaches. The indigenization of English in North America / Salikoko S. Mufwene; title: Perspectives on English as a lingua franca / Margie Berns ... [et al.]; title: A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker / Stephanie Hackert; title: World Englishes and Peace Sociolinguistics: towards a common goal of linguistic understanding / Patricia Friedrich; title: New voices in the canon: the case for including world Englishes in literature / Jill Hallett; title: Index.