English Across Borders : A Reflexive Approach to Anglophone Migrants' Repertoires.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bohmann, Axel, author.

Series:

Varieties of English Around the World Series

Varieties of English Around the World Series ; v.G72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Variation.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025.

Summary:

This book presents an account of English in the communicative repertoires of anglophone West-Africans living in Southwestern Germany.Adopting an ethnographically grounded perspective, it analyzes how participants perceive and utilize English as well as other linguistic resources at their disposal in an environment where linguistic competence is.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

List of figures

List of tables

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 From World Englishes to English in complex, multilingual ecologies

2.1 World Englishes models

2.1.1 Strevens' world map of English

2.1.2 Kachru's Circles Model

2.1.3 Schneider's Dynamic Model

2.2 Focus on the Expanding Circle and lingua-franca English

2.2.1 Buschfeld &amp

Kautzsch's model of extra- and intra-territorial forces

2.2.2 World Englishes and English as a lingua franca

2.2.3 Transient multilingual constellations

2.3 World Englishes, globalization, and superdiversity

2.3.1 Superdiversity

2.3.2 The sociolinguistics of globalization

2.3.3 Language as a verb

2.3.4 World Englishes and superdiversity

2.3.5 The world system of Englishes

2.4 Reflections on models and modeling in World Englishes

2.5 Reflexivity and global English

2.5.1 Enregisterment

2.5.2 Language ideologies

2.5.3 A reflexive approach to global English

Chapter 3 Research setting

3.1 West African Englishes

3.1.1 Nigerian English

3.1.2 Gambian English

3.2 Migration to Germany

3.3 Individual trajectories of migration and flight

3.3.1 Roger

3.3.2 Saikou

3.4 Chronotopes of local interaction

3.4.1 The preliminary reception center

3.4.2 Bildung für alle

Chapter 4 Data and methods of analysis

4.1 Interview data

4.2 Methods of analysis

Chapter 5 Place

5.1 Places, settings, sites and scapes

5.2 The World System behind a fence5

5.2.1 The role of English in the local langscape

5.2.2 Variation within English

5.2.3 Histories, geographies, and global flows within local confines

5.3 This is Germany

5.4 Maximizing distance to the then and there of the homeland

5.5 Chronotopic disjunction

5.5.1 Switches to German

5.5.2 Suck-air

5.5.3 Interview segment 1.

5.5.4 Interview segment 2

5.5.5 Discussion

Chapter 6 People

6.1 Identifying identity

6.2 Ascriptive identity discourses

6.2.1 "Learn importent in german"

6.2.2 Good and bad refugees

6.2.3 Emblematic displays of linguistic competence: Linguistic hoop-jumping and the CEFR

6.3 Constructing voice and agency

6.3.1 Speaking with authority, with German

6.3.2 In-group pidgin

6.3.3 Claiming alternatives to refugee identity

Chapter 7 Communication

7.1 Repertoires and registers

7.1.1 The "asylum speaker" revisited

7.1.2 Language, citizenship, and asylum

7.2 Strategies for overcoming communicative difficulties

7.2.1 Extended tolerance of ambiguity

7.2.2 Pooling of communicative resources

7.2.3 Technological intervention

7.2.4 Aspirational German

7.3 Explaining breakdowns

7.3.1 Particularizing

7.3.2 Linguistic gatekeeping

7.3.3 Scale-jumping

7.3.4 Appropriating and subverting official discourses

7.4 Organizing the resources

Chapter 8 Discussion

8.1 Place and territory in World Englishes

8.2 Identity and economy in World Englishes

8.3 Names and models in World Englishes

Chapter 9 Conclusion

References

Appendixes

Appendix I Transcription conventions

Appendix II Interview instrument

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-272-4439-1

OCLC:

1547477934