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