English in Cyprus or Cyprus English : an empirical investigation of variety status / Sarah Buschfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buschfeld, Sarah.

Series:

Varieties of English around the world. Text series ; v. G46.

Varieties of English around the world, 0172-7362 ; v. G46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Dialects--Cyprus.

English language.

English language--Foreign countries.

Greek language--Influence on English.

Greek language.

Turkish language--Influence on English.

Turkish language.

Sociolinguistics--Cyprus.

Sociolinguistics.

Cyprus--Languages.

Cyprus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume provides the first-ever comprehensive analysis of a potential variety of English, spoken in the Greek part of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Despite the fact that Cyprus was a British colony from 1878 to 1960, the status of the English language spoken there has not yet been discussed systematically within the framework of World Englishes. To determine whether English in Cyprus has second-language variety status or should rather be considered as learner English, the monograph investigates its historical, sociopolitical and sociolinguistic background and, drawing on a corpus of

Contents:

English in Cyprus or Cyprus English

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of tables

List of figures and charts

List of maps and pictures

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 Motivation for the research project

1.2 Scientific aims of the study

1.3 Theoretical framework

1.4 Methodological framework

1.5 Outline

Chapter 2. English in Cyprus

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Historical background

2.2.1 From the first settlements to the British occupation

2.2.2 British rule in Cyprus

2.2.3 Post-independence, Turkish invasion, and after

2.3 Identity constructions

2.3.1 Resistance against foreign domination and British rule

2.3.2 The Turkish invasion as "Event X"?

2.4 Sociolinguistic conditions

2.4.1 Language use

2.4.2 Language attitudes

2.5 Summary and preliminary conclusions

Chapter 3. World Englishes research and the case of Cyprus

3.1 Introduction

3.2 30 years of World Englishes research

3.2.1 The ENL-ESL-EFL distinction

3.2.2 Kachru's (1985b) Three Concentric Circles of World Englishes

3.2.3 Schneider's (2007) Dynamic Model

3.2.4 Terminology

3.3 Research into English in Cyprus/Cyprus English

3.4 Learner Englishes vs. second-language varieties?

3.4.1 Learner English and interlanguage

3.4.2 Second-language varieties

3.4.3 "Bridging the paradigm gap"

3.4.4 Drawing some theoretical conclusions

3.5 Transfer and feature nativization: A crosslinguistic comparison of English and the Greek-Cypriot dialect

3.5.1 The nominal domain

3.5.2 The verbal domain

3.5.3 Prepositions

3.5.4 Hypotheses

3.6 Summary

Chapter 4. Empirical study

4.1 Introduction

4.2 CEDAR (Cyprus English Data Analysis and Research)

4.2.1 The interviews: Data collection

4.2.2 Participants

4.3 Data transcription

4.4 Summary.

Chapter 5. Identifying characteristics of EiCy/CyE

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Methodology

5.3 Results

5.3.1 Phonological features

5.3.2 Morphosyntactic features

5.3.3 Lexical features

5.3.4 Lexicogrammatical features

5.3.5 Lexicosemantic feature

5.3.6 Pragmatic features

5.4 Summary

Chapter 6. Linguistic characteristics of EiCy/CyE

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Methodology

6.2.1 Feature selection

6.2.2 Data coding

6.2.3 Frequency counts and data analysis

6.3 Results

6.3.1 The morphosyntactic domain

6.3.2 The lexicogrammatical domain

6.3.3 The lexicosemantic domain

6.3.4 Summary and discussion

6.3.5 Statistical test for intergenerational differences

6.4 Summary

Chapter 7. Assessing the variety status of EiCy/CyE

7.1 Introduction

7.2 EiCy/CyE: Second-language variety or learner English?

7.2.1 Spread of bilingualism and expansion in function

7.2.2 Nativization of linguistic structures

7.2.3 Institutionalization

7.2.4 Ways of language acquisition

7.2.5 EiCy/CyE - a hybrid case

7.3 Placing EiCy/CyE on the map of World Englishes research

7.3.1 EiCy/CyE, the ENL-ESL-EFL distinction, and Kachru's (1985b) Three Concentric Circles

7.3.2 EiCy/CyE in Schneider's (2007) Dynamic Model

7.4 Summary

Chapter 8. Conclusions

References

Appendices

I. Questionnaire language attitudes and use

II. Interview guidelines

II.1 Question set "adults"

II.2 Question set "high school students"

III. Supplementary questionnaire

IV. Participants

V. Excerpt sample transcript

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027272171

9027272174

OCLC:

849724471