World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference: G40 (Varieties of English Around the World) - Hardcover

9789027249005: World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference: G40 (Varieties of English Around the World)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027249008 ISBN 13: 9789027249005

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009

World Englishes is a vibrant research field that has attracted scholars from many different linguistic subdisciplines. Emphasizing the common ground of all research on World Englishes, the 22 articles in this collected volume, selected from more than a hundred papers presented at the 2007 conference of the International Association for World Englishes in Regensburg, cover a broad range of topics which together reflect the state of the art of research in this field. The volume focuses on regions as diverse as Africa, the Caribbean, the Antipodes and Asia, but also promotes a globally comparative perspective by analyzing selected characteristics of the English language across a wide range of varieties. Methodologically, a number of different approaches are applied, including corpus linguistic studies, socio-phonetics as well as historical discourse analysis. Due to its wide scope, the book is of interest not only to World Englishes scholars but also to sociolinguists as well as applied, contact or corpus linguists.

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