The evolution of Englishes : the dynamic model and beyond / edited by Sarah Buschfeld [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buschfeld, Sarah, editor.

Series:

Varieties of English Around the World (VEAW), 0172-7362 ; Volume G49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Variation--English-speaking countries.

English language.

English language--Variation--Foreign countries.

English language--English-speaking countries.

English language--Foreign countries.

Communication, International.

Intercultural communication.

Schneider, Edgar W. (Edgar Werner), 1954-.

Schneider, Edgar W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (531 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Summary:

By facilitating the contact between smaller groups of people living in widely separated places, the new media stimulate the use of minority languages, including constructed and historical languages. This article looks at the international community of users of Old English as a living language on the Internet. It analyses the linguistic competence behind the modest Anglo-Saxon revival and the strategies applied to deal with the modern world. As a sample of online texts, especially from Wikipedia, shows, not only does neo-Old English suffer from haphazard grammar and pervasive interference from Modern English, but it also depends too essentially on lexical innovation to have much of a future.

Contents:

The Evolution of Englishes

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Series editor's preface

The evolution of Englishes: In honour of Edgar Schneider on the occasion of his 60th birthday

Edgar, the teacher and supervisor

Edgar, the scholar

Edgar, the globetrotter

Edgar, the Regensburger

References

The evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond

1. Introduction

2. Part I: The Dynamic Model

2.1 The Dynamic Model: Basic assumptions and predictions

2.2 Testing and extending the Dynamic Model

3. Part II: Beyond the Dynamic Model - empirical and theoretical perspectives on World Englishes

3.1 Focus 1: Contributions with a theoretical focus

3.2 Focus 2: Cross-varietal contributions

3.3 Focus 3: United States

3.4 Focus 4: Asia and Africa

3.5 Focus 5: Old varieties, new perspectives

4. Outlook

Acknowledgments

Part I: The Dynamic Model

Convergence and endonormativity at Phase 4 of the Dynamic Model

2. Local contact in the United States of America

3. Local contact in South Africa

3.1 English-Afrikaans contact in the white community

3.2 English-Afrikaans contact in the coloured community

3.3 English in contact with the Indian languages and community

3.4 English in contact with the Bantu languages and black African community

3.5 Changes in South African English since 1994

4. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

The identity issue in bi- and multilingual repertoires in South Africa

2. Description of the empirical study

3. Findings

3.1 Questionnaire study

3.2 Interview study

4. Discussion of the findings

5. Implications for Schneider's Dynamic Model

References.

The sociophonetic effects of 'Event X': Post-apartheid Black South African English

1. Introduction: Classifications and overlaps

2. Post-apartheid flexibilities

3. Case study one: Hatti G.

3.1 Features of traditional BSAE

3.2 Features of ISAE

4. Case study two: Siphelo M.

5. Conclusion

Beyond Nativization? Philippine English in Schneider's Dynamic Model

1. Foundation and Stabilization of Philippine English

2. Nativization of Philippine English

3. Beyond Nativization

Stylistic and sociolinguistic variation in Schneider's Nativization Phase

1.1 English in Ghana

1.2 Situating Ghanaian English in Schneider's Dynamic Model

1.3 The role of sociolinguistic variation in the Dynamic Model

2. T-affrication in Ghanaian English: Gender- and style-related variation

3. Relativizer choice in Ghanaian English: Style-related variation

4. Summary and theoretical implications

Differentiation in Australian English

2. Establishing AusE: From endonormativity to differentiation

3. Regional and social diversification, and contact with immigrant languages

3.1 Language diversity and its regional impacts within Australia

3.2 Variation within mainstream AusE

3.3 Immigrant languages in contact with English

4. Australian Aboriginal English (AborE)

4.1 Aboriginal varieties of English across Australia

4.2 Development of Aboriginal English and its contexts of use

4.3 The homogeneity of AborE

5. External influences on AusE

6. Conclusions

The evolution of Singlish in late modernity Beyond Phase 5?

2. The double hermeneutic and Singlish

3. Singlish overseas

4. The commodification of Singlish

5. Concluding discussion: The Dynamic Model and late modernity.

References

Emergence of "new varieties" in speech as a complex system

2. Complex systems

3. Acquisition in the Dynamic Model

4. Scaling in complex systems

5. Perception and emergence in the Dynamic Model

The cognitive evolution of Englishes: The role of constructions in the Dynamic Model

2. Construction Grammar

3. Constructions in the Dynamic Model

4. Pilot study: Comparative correlatives

4.1 The phenomenon: Comparative correlative constructions

4.2 ICE corpus study

English in Cyprus and Namibia: A critical approach to taxonomies and models of World Englishes

2. English in Cyprus

2.1 History, politics, and sociolinguistic background

2.2 Linguistic features

3. English in Namibia

3.1 History, politics, sociolinguistic background

3.2 Linguistic features

4. The status of EiCy and EiNa

5. Theoretical implications

5.1 The ENL-ESL-EFL distinction and Kachru's (1985) Three Circles model

5.2 Schneider's (2007) Dynamic Model

5.3 A critical evaluation of the Dynamic Model

English in Germany: Spreading bilingualism, retreating exonormative orientation and nativization?

2. The Dynamic Model in non-postcolonial contexts: Criteria for assessing the status of English

3. Spreading bilingualism? Some figures

4. Retreating exonormative orientation? The case of teaching models in German schools

5. Incipient nativization? The dress / trap merger and variable rhoticity

5.1 Data and method

5.2 The dress / trap merger

5.3 Method

5.4 Results

5.5 Variable rhoticity

5.6 Method

5.7 Results

6. Discussion

6.1 Empirical evidence for the changing status of English in Germany.

6.2 Applying the Dynamic Model to the German context

7. Conclusion

Part II: Beyond the Dynamic Model - Empirical and theoretical perspectives on World Englishes

Focus 1: Contributions with a theoretical focus

On cafeterias and new dialects: The role of primary transmitters

2. A case in point: South Atlantic English

3. Tracing the donors in 19th century TdCE

4. Why this outcome? Primary transmitters at work

Does money talk, and do languages have price tags? Economic perspectives on English

1. Introduction: World Englishes - a topic too big for English linguistics?

2. Ideologies, institutions and power: Historical and sociological perspectives on Global English

3. Pricing the linguistic resource and the dangers of economic reductionism

4. Long-distance interdisciplinary cooperation between linguistics and non-traditional partner

Language variation and education: A focus on Pakistan

1. Language variation and education

2. Language of the textbooks

3. Discussion and conclusion

The evolution of English(es): Notes on the history of an idea

2. Darwinism in linguistics

3. The notion of progress in language

4. Classifying languages linguistically

4.1 Phonetic-phonological classifications

4.2 Morphosyntactic taxonomies

5. A hierarchy of languages and varieties

6. Jespersen on Progress in Language

Focus 2: Cross-varietal contributions

At the crossroads of variation studies and corpus linguistics

2. Verb-forms in dictionaries

3. Traditional descriptions by Fowler (1926) and Jespersen (1942)

4. Verb-forms in dialectological studies

5. A pilot study with American students

Compounding and suffixation in World Englishes.

1. Introduction

2. Presentation and discussion

2.1 Compounding: nouns, verbs and adjectives

2.2 Neoclassical compounds

2.3 Synthetic compounds

2.4 Hybridization and indigenous vocabulary

2.5 Nominal suffixes -ship and -hood

2.6 Nominal suffix -ism

2.7 Nominal suffix -ee

2.8 Adjectival suffixes -ish and -y

3. Conclusion

Focus 3: United States

When did Southern American English really begin? Testing Bailey's Hypothesis

2. A different perspective

2.1 The currency issue

2.2 The distinctiveness issue

3. Discussion

The English origins of African American Vernacular English: What Edgar W. Schneider has taught us

1. Background

2. The English origins of AAVE

2.1 Justifications for the English-origins hypothesis

2.2 Archival and other evidence for the English-origins hypothesis

2.3. How Jim Crow fostered AAVE

3. By way of conclusion

Innovation in pre-World War II African American Vernacular English? Evidence from BLUR

2. Habitual be + V-ing

3. Resultative be done

4. Semi-auxiliary come

5. Intensifying steady and counterfactual call oneself

Focus 4: asia and Africa

The use of inflectional marking for present and past tenses in English as an Asian lingua franca

1. Universals and / or substrate influence

2. Marking or non-marking for tense in ACE

Yesterday's founder population, today's Englishes: The role of the Peranakans

1. Singapore English and the ecology of Singapore

2. The usual suspects

3. Puzzling over prosody

4. The Peranakans as founder population

5. The continuing evolution of the Peranakans and of SgE

6. Concluding thoughts on ecology and evolution

The evolution of Brunei English How it is contributing to the development of English in the world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027269416

9027269416

OCLC:

889950092