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Still more Englishes
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ISBN: 9789027275042 9027275041 9781588112637 1588112632 128335828X 9781283358286 9027248877 1588112632 9789027248879 9786613358288 Year: 2002 Volume: 28 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub.,

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This monograph comprises eight papers, most of which originated as presentations given at international conferences or guest lectures. These papers deal with the problematic nature of English as a global language, and discuss what makes texts authentic and reliable for linguistic analysis, Scots in Ulster and in Scotland, forms and functions of English in Southeast Asia, the spread of rhyming slang, and varieties of ELT. The volume concludes with an annotated bibliography of the most important publications devoted to varieties of English around the world.

The English languages
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ISBN: 0521485827 9780521485821 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Hundreds of millions of people use English every day everywhere in the world, but may or may not succeed in understanding each other. Despite the success of its standard form (or forms) in many countries, the complex called 'English' is immensely diverse - probably more diverse than any single language has ever been - and is likely to become even more so in the next century. This book is a compelling and broad-ranging invitation to consider the variety, the options and the implications of this vast system. The English Languages looks at the 'pluralism' of English, the 'Englishes', that have arisen in the last twenty years or so, and addresses the question of whether or not English can be considered a family of languages in its own right, like the Romance languages.

Caribbean, Afica, Asia, Australasia. Volume 2 : studies in honour of Manfred Görlach
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ISBN: 1283358387 9786613358387 9027275769 9789027275769 902724877X 1556197160 1556194498 9781556194498 9781556197161 9027248761 9789027248763 9789027248770 9786613358394 1283358395 9027275777 Year: 1997 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins,

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The two volumes of Englishes around the World present high-quality original research papers written in honour of Manfred Görlach, founder and editor of the journal English World-Wide and the book series Varieties of English Around the World. The papers thematically focus on the field that Manfred Görlach has helped to build and shape. Volume 2 of Englishes Around the World presents studies of so-called "New Englishes", post-colonial varieties as spoken predominantly in countries of the former British Empire. There are five contributions on the Caribbean (covering Jamaica, Guyana, and Trinidad), five articles on Africa (South Africa, East Africa, and Nigeria), six studies of English in Asian countries (Japan, the Philippines, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea), and six papers on Australia and New Zealand. Topics covered range from sociohistorical causes and processes, the nativization of English in different countries, or the expression of individual identities by means of the English language through structural descriptions to sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, lexicographic, pragmatic, stylistic, and other matters. The articles in the respective sections are written by D.R. Craig, L.M. Haynes, P.L. Patrick, K. Shields-Brodber, and L. Winer; A Banjo, V. de Klerk, R. Mesthrie, J. Schmied, and P. Silva; R.W. Bailey, R. Begum and T. Kandiah, A. Gonzalez, R.R. Mehrotra, P. Mühlhäusler, and M. Newbrook; L. Bauer, S. Butler, M. Clyne, P. Peters and A. Delbridge, G. Tulloch, and G.W. Turner.


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Understanding English as a Lingua Franca
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ISBN: 9780194375009 0194375005 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,


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Grammatical change in English world-wide
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ISBN: 9789027203755 902720375X 9027268908 Year: 2015 Volume: 67 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,

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This chapter examines the use of the progressive aspect in Black South African English (BSAfE) since the late 19th century in corpora of fiction and newspapers. Previous research points to on-going change in native varieties and the extension to stative contexts in non-native varieties of English. The findings are: There has been a consistent increase in the frequency of the construction. Stative and achievement verbs are used in the progressive aspect proportionally more often in BSAfE than in native varieties. The progressive with stative verbs encodes states of longer duration alongside the

World Englishes : implications for international communication and English language teaching
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ISBN: 9780521616874 0521616874 0521616875 9780521851473 0521851475 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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The model of English that should be used in classrooms has long been a subject of debate. World Englishes, Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching, (with an accompanying audio CD) describes selected varieties of World Englishes, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of selecting a particular variety from the point of view of both teachers and learners. It aims to examine and re-evaluate concepts such as 'standard', 'variety', 'native speaker' and 'non-native speaker', and to validate the role played by multilingual and multicultural English language teachers, arguing that context and learner needs should determine the variety to be taught. World Englishes was shortlisted for the 2008 British Council Innovations Awards.

Standard English : the widening debate
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ISBN: 0203054067 113465314X 1280199040 9786610199044 9780203054062 9780415191623 0415191629 9780415191630 0415191637 9781134653140 6610199043 9781134653096 1134653093 9781134653133 1134653131 0415191629 0415191637 Year: 1999 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Standard English draws together the leading international scholars in the field, who confront the debates surrounding 'Standard English', grammar and correctness head-on.These debates are as intense today as ever and extend far beyond an academic context. Current debates about the teaching of English in the school curriculum and concerns about declining standards of English are placed in a historical, social and international context. Standard English:* explores the definitions of 'Standard English', with particular attention to distinctions between spoken and written

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