Modeling world Englishes : assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties / edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Michigan State University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deshors, Sandra C., editor.

Kautzsch, Alexander, 1969-2018, honouree.

Series:

Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 61.

Varieties of English around the world (VEAW), 0172-7362 ; volume G61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Variation.

English language.

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

x, 297 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

Summary:

At a time when globalization and the advent of the internet have accelerated the spread and diversification of English varieties worldwide, this book provides a constructive assessment of the theoretical models that best account for the development and use of Englishes in the early 21st century. In this endeavor, the present book brings together cutting-edge contributions by leading scholars who explore the notion of linguistic globalization based on a wide range of ESLs, EFLs and ELF, synchronic and diachronic data, different methodological approaches (corpus-based, sociolinguistic, ethnographic), and a variety of data resources (social media, multiplayer online games, journalistic data, GloWbE, Corpus of Historical Singapore English, thematic blogs). Collectively, these studies serve as a springboard for future research on the globalization of Englishes and they contribute to a timely and necessary scholarly conversation on what constitutes adequate theoretical models of World Englishes in the 21st century.

Contents:

In memoriam / Alexander Kautzsch

Modeling World Englishes in the 21st century : A thematic introduction / Sandra C. Deshors

From colonial dynamism to current transnationalism : A unified view on postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes / Sarah Buschfeld, Alexander Kautzsch and Edgar W. Schneider

Stabilising domains of English-language use in Germany : Global English in a non-colonial languagescape / Christian Mair

Hybridity, globalisation and models of Englishes : English in South African multilingual digital repertoires / Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kruger

Placing ELF among the varieties of English : Observations from typological profiling / Mikko Laitinen

Modeling World Englishes from a cross-linguistic perspective / Peter Siemund

"I'm an Anglophile, but ..." : A corpus-assisted discourse study of language ideologies in the Netherlands / Alison Edwards

American and, or British influence on L2 Englishes : Does context tip the scale(s)? / Gaëtanelle Gilquin

It is time that this (should) be studied across a broader range of Englishes : A global trip around mandative subjunctives / Marianne Hundt

A corpus-linguistic account of the history of the genitive alternation in Singapore English / Stefan Th. Gries, Tobias Bernaisch and Benedikt Heller

Modeling World Englishes in the 21st century : New reflections on model-making / Sandra C. Deshors and Gaëtanelle Gilquin

Index.

Notes:

This work commemorates the life and work of the late scholar, Alexander Kautzsch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Modeling world Englishes

ISBN:

9789027201232

9027201234

OCLC:

1050455023