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 -- G40
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027249005
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: I. Focus on: 1.1 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: 1.2 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: 1.3 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: 1.4 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: II. The global perspective: 2.1 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: 2.2 New approaches: The indigenization of English in North America / Salikoko S. Mufwene; title: Perspectives on English as a lingua franca / Margie Berns, Jennifer Jenkins, Marko Modiano, Barbara Seidlhofer and Yasukata Yano; 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.