Changing english : global and local perspectives / edited by Markku Filppula [and three others].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Filppula, Markku, editor.

GlobE Research Consortium, conference host.

Conference Name:

Changing English (Conference) (2013 : Helsinki, Finland)

Series:

Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Mouton, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into contact with each other. The articles in this volume set out to combine all these perspectives in ways that give us a better understanding of the changing nature of English in the modern world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

List of abbreviations

Changing English: global and local perspectives

Editors’ Introduction to Part I

Crisis of the “Outer Circle”? – Globalisation, the weak nation state, and the need for new taxonomies in World Englishes research

The Ecology of Language and the New Englishes: toward an integrative framework

Editors’ Introduction to Part II

The Present Perfect as a core feature of World Englishes

Innovative structures in the relative clauses of indigenized L2 Asian English varieties

Morphosyntactic typology, contact and variation: Cape Flats English in relation to other South African Englishes in the Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English

Omission of direct objects in New Englishes

The definite article in World Englishes

Aspects of Verb Complementation in New Zealand Newspaper English

Extended uses of the progressive form in Inner, Outer and Expanding Circle Englishes

Editors’ Introduction to Part III

A glimpse of ELF

Lending bureaucracy voice: negotiating English in institutional encounters

On the relationship between the cognitive and the communal: a complex systems perspective

Transfer is Transfer; Grammaticalization is Grammaticalization

Subject index

Languages and Varieties index

Author Index

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 10, 2017).

ISBN:

9783110429763

3110429764

9783110429657

3110429659

OCLC:

1011439646