Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-First Century : Language, Society and Culture.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Peters, Pam, Author.

Contributor:

• Peters, Pam, editor.
• Burridge, Kate, editor.

Series:

• Language and Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• English language--Variation.
• English language--Variation--English-speaking countries.
• Ecolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Highlights the adaptability of English in contact with other languages, cultures and societies and in diverse regional habitats.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Contributors
• Acknowledgement
• CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century: Language, Society and Culture
• CHAPTER 2 Platform Paper: Reflections of Cultures in Corpus Texts: Focus on the Indo-Pacific Region
• CHAPTER 3 Reflections of Afrikaans in the English Short Stories of Herman Charles Bosman
• CHAPTER 4 Susmaryosep! Lexical Evidence of Cultural Influence in Philippine English
• CHAPTER 5 Cultural Keywords in Indian English
• CHAPTER 6 Lexicopragmatics between Cultural Heritage and Exonormative Second Language Acquisition: Address Terms, Greetings and Discourse Markers in Ugandan English
• CHAPTER 7 Cultural Relations? Kinship Terminology in Three Islands in the Northern Pacific
• CHAPTER 8 Somewhere between Australia and Malaysia and ‘I’ and ‘we’: Verbalising Culture on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
• CHAPTER 9 Expressing Concepts Metaphorically in English Editorials in the Sinosphere
• CHAPTER 10 L1 Singapore English: The Influence of Ethnicity and Input
• CHAPTER 11 Across Three Kachruvian Circles with Two Parts-of-speech: Nouns and Verbs in ENL, ESL and EFL Varieties
• CHAPTER 12 Modality, Rhetoric and Regionality in English Editorials in the Sinosphere
• CHAPTER 13 Where Grammar Meets Culture: Pronominal Systems in Australasia and the South Pacific Revisited
• CHAPTER 14 Decolonisation and Neo-colonialism in Aboriginal Education
• CHAPTER 15 Modal and Semi-modal Verbs of Obligation in the Australian, New Zealand and British Hansards, 1901–2015
• CHAPTER 16 Privileging Informality: Cultural Influences on the Structural Patterning of Australian English
• CHAPTER 17 The Auckland Voices Project: Language Change in a Changing City
• Index

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

• 1-4744-6288-X
• 1-3995-0941-1
• 1-4744-6287-1

OCLC:

1293257409