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Boberg, Charles – World Englishes, 2012
The variety of English spoken by about half a million people in the Canadian province of Quebec is a minority language in intensive contact with French, the local majority language. This unusual contact situation has produced a unique variety of English which displays many instances of French influence that distinguish it from other types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Linguistic Borrowing, Language Role, French
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Clarke, Sandra – World Englishes, 2012
Newfoundland English has long been considered autonomous within the North American context. Sociolinguistic studies conducted over the past three decades, however, typically suggest cross-generational change in phonetic feature use, motivated by greater alignment with mainland Canadian English norms. The present study uses data spanning the past…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonetics, Social Status, North American English
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Evans, Stephen – World Englishes, 2011
One of the dominant themes of the literature on language in Hong Kong is the belief that English, particularly its spoken form, plays a limited role in the lives of the territory's mainly Cantonese-speaking Chinese community. For this reason, it is argued, there is no societal basis for the development of a nativised variety of English. One of the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Patterns, Speech Communication, Foreign Countries
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D'Souza, Jean – World Englishes, 1990
An examination of linguists' attempts to characterize the variety of English used in various articles and novels found that, although they used different criteria for classification, the linguists almost equally (about 30 percent of the time each) either could not identify, correctly identified, or incorrectly identified the variety. (14…
Descriptors: Dialects, English, Language Classification, Language Patterns
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Brutt-Griffler, Janina – World Englishes, 1998
Argues that conceptualization of English as an international language must take into account the changes the language has undergone in becoming an international medium of communication and that the diverse cultural identities of teachers of World English serve to enrich the language and reflect changes in it. (MSE)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication
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Webster, Jonathan J. – World Englishes, 1998
Explores Singapore poet Edwin Thumboo's aesthetic use of consistent foregrounding, or use of certain linguistic devices to attract attention, in one poem from three perspectives: propositional; textual; and interpersonal. The approach adopted is functional-semantic in orientation and is designed to gain a better appreciation of the poem's texture…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
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Peng, Long; Ann, Jean – World Englishes, 2001
Investigates stress placement in the English of Spanish Speakers and in speakers of Nigerian English and Singapore English. Reveals that these three varieties have in common several patterns of stress placement that are distinct from British or American English. Shows that these patterns cannot be accounted for by transfer. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
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Rahman, Tariq – World Englishes, 1991
Describes the phonological and phonetic features of English as spoken in Pakistan and shows such distinctive patterns as anglicized, acrolectal, mesolectal, and basilectal varieties of Pakistani English. (45 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
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Widdowson, Henry G. – World Englishes, 1998
The author of an article on the spread and teaching of English as an international language (EIL) replies to others' response to his ideas on the role of English in various international circles, the contexts and patterns of use of English, and English second-language instruction. (MSE)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Language Patterns
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Collins, Peter C. – World Englishes, 1996
Tests claims regarding "get"-passives in English via interrogation of a set of written and spoken corpora. The data suggest that "get"-passives are often associated with two types of pragmatic implicature. Finally, the corpus provides evidence of three types of variation with 'get'-passives: regional, stylistic, and diachronic.…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Databases, English, Foreign Countries
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Holmes, Janet – World Englishes, 1996
Examines the distribution of word-final "/z/" in New Zealand English. The article identifies three main variants of word-final "/z/": a voiced variant, a partially devoiced variant, and a voiceless variant. Findings indicate that the voiceless variant is used more often by Maori than by Pakeha New Zealanders, and that young…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Consonants
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Atoye, Raphael O. – World Englishes, 1991
Examination of the pattern of word stress in Nigerian Standard English suggests that progressive stress shift is the primary cause of the difference in stress assignment between Nigerian Standard English and British Standard English. (13 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Variation
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Bamgbose, Ayo – World Englishes, 1998
Discusses issues in the role of non-native English variants as an endonormative standard in non-English-speaking countries, including the status of innovations in the nativization process, continued use of normative standards as a point of reference, ambivalence between recognition and acceptance of non-native norms, adequacy of pedagogical…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, English, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes
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Kubota, Ryuko – World Englishes, 1998
Examines arguments for and against extensive English language teaching in non-Western cultures, particularly in Japan, including the ideologies of English in two Japanese discourses, "nihonjinron" and "kokusaika." It is concluded that instruction in English that is intended to promote social transformation should include both…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Educational Needs, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Torres, Lourdes – World Englishes, 1989
Examines code mixing and borrowing across two generations of New York Puerto Ricans, and explores the possibility of existence of a lifecycle of language use in the community. (26 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language)
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