Exploring second-language varieties of English and learner Englishes : bridging a paradigm gap / edited by Joybrato Mukherjee, Marianne Hundt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mukherjee, Joybrato.

Hundt, Marianne.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 44.

Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition--Study and teaching.

Second language acquisition.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

English language--Variation.

English language.

Physical Description:

vi, 222 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes and second-language varieties are typically non-native forms of English that emerge in language contact situations, it is high time that they are described and compared on an empirical basis in order to draw conceptual and theoretical conclusions with regard to their form, function and acquisition. The present collection of articles places special emphasis on empirical evidence obtained from large-scale analyses of computerised corpora of learner Englishes (such as the International Corpus of Learner English) and of second-language varieties of English (such as the International Corpus of English). It addresses questions such as 'Are the phenomena we find in ESL and EFL varieties features or errors?' or 'How common and wide-spread are features across contact varieties of English?'.

Contents:

Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

References

Modal auxiliaries in second language varieties of English

1. Introduction

2. Second language acquisition and New Englishes - a bridge to be built

2.1 The (ENL-) ESL-EFL taxonomy revisited

2.2 Modal auxiliaries in L2 varieties: An SLA perspective

3. Modal expressions of obligation and necessity in Asian, African and South Pacific varieties of English

3.1 The corpus-linguistic approach

3.2 Defining the variable

3.3 Overall tendencies

3.4 The central modal should

3.5 The central modal must

3.6 Discussion

4. Conclusion

English in Cyprus

2. Cyprus English - second language variety or learner English?

2.1 Some theoretical considerations

2.2 English in Cyprus: Historical background

2.3 The status of English in postcolonial Cyprus

2.4 CEDAR - Cyprus English Data Analysis and Research

2.5 Potential candidates for structural nativization

2.6 The Variety Spectrum

2.7 Language attitudes and use

3. Placing Cyprus English on the map of World Englishes research

3.1 The ESL-EFL distinction in early models

3.2 Continuous models

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion

From EFL to ESL

2. From EFL to ESL

3. The preposition into

4. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of into in ICLE

4.1 Frequency

4.2 Syntactic structures

4.3 Lexical variation

4.4 Semantic analysis

4.5 Phraseological uses

4.6 Non-standard uses

5. Novice vs expert writing

6. Conclusion

Formulaic sequences in spoken ENL, ESL and EFL

1. Introduction: Comparing ESL and EFL communities and speakers

2. Frequent multiword expressions in ENL, ESL and EFL.

3. Database and methodology

4. Findings

4.1 Quantitative findings of all 3-grams in ENS, ESL and EFL

4.2 Common core of 3-grams in ENL, ESL and EFL

4.3 Variant-specific 3-grams in ENL, ESL and EFL

5. Conclusion and outlook

Studying structural innovations in New English varieties

2. What is cross-linguistic influence?

3. Factors constraining cross-linguistic influence

4. How to study cross-linguistic influence in New Englishes

5. Summary and conclusion

Interrogative inversion as a learner phenomenon in English contact varieties

1. Introduction, previous research and the "paradigm gap"

2. Non-standard inversion patterns in varieties of English

2.1 IndE and SingE

2.2 Irish English

3. Inversion as imitation rather than rule overgeneralization

3.1 Tendencies from individual SLA

3.2 An attempt at quantifying "formulaic language"

4. Methodological and theoretical conclusions

Overuse of the progressive in ESL and learner Englishes - fact or fiction?*

2. Background

3. Data

4. Definition of the variable

5. Results

5.1 Quantitative findings

5.2 Qualitative analysis

6. Discussion

7. Conclusion

Appendix

Typological profiling

2. Data

2.1 Learner Englishes

2.2 Indigenized L2 varieties

2.3 Standard British English benchmark varieties

2.4 European mother-tongue languages

3. Method

3.1 Coding varieties of English

3.2 Coding European mother-tongue languages

4. Results

4.1 The big picture

4.2 Sources of variability

4.3 Substrate effects?

5. Discussion and conclusion

A principled distinction between error and conventionalized innovation in African Englishes

2. Social and psycholinguistic forces.

3. Evidence

3.1 Case Study 1: The progressive aspect in South African English

3.2 Case Study 2: "Can be able to" in South African English

3.3 Case Study 3: "Enable + bare infinitive verb" in East African English

Discussion forum

1. Modelling Englishes in the world

1.1 ENL, ESL and EFL countries?

1.2 ENL, ESL and EFL speakers

1.3 Structural properties of ENL, ESL and EFL: Discrete variety types or continuum?

1.4 Labelling and the paradigm gap

2. The error-innovation cline

3. ESL and EFL: Developmental differences

4. Corpus methodology and the role of frequency

5. Looking ahead

Bionotes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613122070

9781283122078

1283122073

9789027287144

9027287147

OCLC:

726734723