Englishes around the World : Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach. Volume 2: Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Australasia.

By: Schneider, Edgar WMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Varieties of English Around the WorldPublisher: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (365 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789027275769Subject(s): English language -- Commonwealth countries | English language -- English-speaking countries | English language -- Foreign countries | English language -- Variation -- Commonwealth countries | English language -- Variation -- English-speaking countries | English language -- Variation -- Foreign countriesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Englishes around the World : Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach. Volume 2: Caribbean, Africa, Asia, AustralasiaDDC classification: 427.009 LOC classification: PE2751 -- .E57 1997ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
ENGLISHES AROUND THE WORLD 2 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- FOR MANFRED GÖRLACH ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY -- INTRODUCTION -- Acknowledgments -- THE ENGLISH OF WEST INDIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS -- 1. Concern about language -- 2. Writing as data -- 3. Results of an error analysis -- 3.1. Word-totals, paragraphs, cancellations -- 3.2. Spelling -- 3.3. Punctuation and capitalisation -- 3.4. Inflections, auxiliaries, modais -- 3.5. Idiom -- 3.6. Omissions -- 3.7. Consistency of NP/VP relationships -- 3.8. Lexical choices: Inclusion, exclusion and congruence in meaning -- 4. Implications for the language programme -- References -- ONE PEOPLE, ONE NATION, ONE DESTINY: RACE, ETHNICITY AND GUYANESE SOCIOLINGUISTIC IDENTITY -- 1. Wherefore Guyana -- 2. One people, one nation: Race and ethnicity -- 2.1. Race -- 2.2. Ethnicity -- 3. One destiny: Guyanese sociolinguistic identity -- 3.1. The components -- 3.2. Attitudes and behaviors -- 3.3. The results of interaction and change -- References -- STYLE AND REGISTER IN JAMAICAN PATWA -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Internal varieties in creole studies -- 3. Speaky-Spoky: a creole style -- 4. Rasta Talk: a creole register -- 5. Creole internal varieties: common characteristics of functional codes -- References -- REQUIEMFOR ENGLISH IN AN "ENGLISH-SPEAKING" COMMUNITY: THE CASE OF JAMAICA -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The historical evolution of the roles of English and Creole in Jamaica -- 2.1. The tradition of English as sovereign in colonial and early post-colonial Jamaica -- 2.2. Independence and the evolution of public/formal functions for Jamaican Creole -- 3. The fate of English in contemporary Jamaica -- 4. Prognosis for English -- References -- SIX VERNACULAR TEXTS FROM TRINIDAD, 1838-1851.
1. "The Sorrows of Kitty"-"Spectator". (Trinidad Standard, 1 February 1839, p. 3) -- 2. "Look here, Sambo"-Anonymous. (Trinidad Standard, 13 September 1839, p. 2) -- 3. "New Government Buildings"-"Eavesdropper". (Port of Spain Gazette, 8 November 1844, p. 3) -- 4. "Down de Coste"-"Quasshe". (Trinidad Spectator, 31 March 1847, p. 2) -- 5. "Tode genieman wha rite"-"George Hill", (The Trinidad Spectator and Commercial Gazetteer, 8 January 1848, p. 2) -- 6. "Drama o f a certain day in life"-Anonymous. (The Trinidadian, 7 May 1851, p. 3) -- References -- ASPECTSOF THE SYNTAX OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Varieties within varieties -- 3. Reflexives and reciprocals -- 4. The modal will -- 4.1. A syntactic explanation -- 4.2. A phonological explanation -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- ENCOUNTERS WITH ENGLISH OVER THREE GENERATIONS IN A XHOSA FAMILY: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The background -- 2. 1 The sociolinguistic context -- 2.2. The historical context -- 2.3. The local context -- 3. The Xhosa informants -- 3.1. The grandmother -- 3.1.1. Personal history -- 3.1.2, Grammatical features -- 3.2. The mother -- 3.2.1. Personal history -- 3.2.2. Grammatical features -- 3.3. The daughter -- 3.3. 1 Personal history -- 3.3.2. Syntactic features -- 3.4. Phonetic features -- 3.5. Discourse patterns -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF TOPICALISATION PHENOMENA IN SOUTH AFRICAN BLACK ENGLISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Topicalisation phenomena -- 3.1. An introduction -- 4. Topicalisation phenomena in SABE -- 4.1. Types of topicalisation -- 4.2. Pragmatic functions of focus movement and fronting -- 4.1. Pragmatic functions of left dislocation -- 4.4. Social variation -- 4.5. Topicalisation and the passive -- 5. Conclusions -- References.
BEYOND RECIPES, BEYOND MAKS, BEYOND AFRICA.TEXTS, TEXT-TYPES, TEXT COLLECTIONSAND AFRICAN REALITIES1 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research approaches and African realities -- 3. Text-collections and African realities -- 4. African English and (socio-)linguistic realities -- 4.1. The sociopolitical perspective -- 4.2. The cultural perspectiv -- 4.3. The cognitive perspective -- References -- THE LEXIS OF SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH: REFLECTIONS OF A MULTILINGUAL SOCIETY -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. South Africa's language communities -- 1.2. The position of English in South Africa -- 2. Historical background -- 2.1. English and South African Dutch -- 2,2. 19th century English-speaking immigrants -- 3. Major influences on the South African English vocabulary -- 3.1. South African Dutch and Afrikaans -- 3.2. The African languages -- 3.3. Other influential languages -- 3.4. Special senses of English words, and coined words or phrases -- 3.5. The resistance movements and the period of change -- 4. Perceptions of SAE among English-speaking South Africans -- 4.1. Nineteenth century commentators on SAE -- 4.2. Twentieth century attitudes -- 4.3. A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles -- 5. English in the "new South Africa -- References -- THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN JAPAN -- References -- MISRECOGNITIONS OF VARIABILITY IN NEW VARIETIES OFENGLISH: TAMIL MINORITY USAGE IN SINGAPORE ENGLISH -- References -- PHILIPPINEENGLISH: A VARIETY IN SEARCH OF LEGITIMATION -- 1. Introduction: The English language in the Philippines -- 2. Philippine English in educational use -- 3. Problems of legitimation -- 4. Towards a solution? -- References -- NEGATION ININDIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH -- References -- GRAMMATICALPROPERTIES OF MILNE BAY ENGLISH AND THEIR SOURCES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Geographic and demographic background -- 3. Sociohistorical background.
4. A parallel case: South Australian Cattle Station English -- 5. Structural properties of PPE and Milne Bay English -- 5.1. General remarks -- 5.2. Phonology -- 5.3. Inflectional morphology -- 5.4. Derivational morphology -- 5.5. Syntax -- 6. Differences between PPE and MBE -- 7. Interpretation -- References -- MALAYSIAN ENGLISH: STATUS, NORMS, SOME GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL FEATURES -- 1. Introduction: Malaysian English as compared to its neighbours -- 2. Sociolinguistic background: Which norms? -- 3. Features of acrolectal Malaysian English -- 3.1. Group 1: -- 3.2. Group 2: -- 3.3. Groups 3 and 4: A corpus-based analysis: -- 4. Summary -- References -- ATTEMPTING TO TRACE SCOTTISH INFLUENCE ONNEW ZEALAND ENGLISH -- 1. Introduction: Scottish immigration in New Zealand -- 2. Apologia: Can we spot Scottish influence? -- 3. Scottish influence in New Zealand dialect -- 3.1. Grammar -- 3.2. The verb to want -- 3.3. Lexis -- 3.4. Pronunciation: /r/ retention -- 4. Pronunciation -- 4.1. The [w]/[hw] distinction -- 4.2. Central[I] -- 4.3. Fronted /u/ -- 4.4. [h] retention -- 4.5. Fricative devoicing -- 4.6. [oe] in dance -- 4.7. Vowel length -- 4.8. Vowel neutralisation -- 4.9. Stress -- 5. Grammar -- 5.1. Sentence negation with never -- 5.2. Morphology -- 5.3. Use of the modal may -- 6. Lexis -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- SELECTING SOUTH-EAST ASIAN WORDS FORAN AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY:HOW TO CHOOSE IN AN ENGLISH NOT YOUR OWN -- References -- PLURICENTRICLANGUAGES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY- AN ANTIPODEAN VIEW1 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Australian national identity -- 3. The role of British English in Australia -- 4. Attitudes to Australian English -- 5. Status changes -- 6. Use of varieties of Australian English -- 7. Ethnolects of Australian English -- 8. Concluding remark on Australian English -- 9. New Zealand English.
10. Pluricentric languages and national identity -- 11. Some parallels with Austrian German and Belgian Dutch and some differences -- References -- FOWLER'S LEGACY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assessing Fowler's impact on English usage: using databases -- 3. Fowler's influence on writing about usage in Britain and USA -- 4. Fowler's stance -- 5. Textual evidence for Fowler's influence on usage -- 6. Australian writing on usage -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- SCOTS AS A LITERARY LANGUAGE IN AUSTRALIA -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fictional prose -- 3. Poetry -- 4. Non-fictional prose -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- AUSTRALIANENGLISHAS A NATIONAL LANGUAGE -- References -- Adresses of authors -- Subject index.
Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

ENGLISHES AROUND THE WORLD 2 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- FOR MANFRED GÖRLACH ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY -- INTRODUCTION -- Acknowledgments -- THE ENGLISH OF WEST INDIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS -- 1. Concern about language -- 2. Writing as data -- 3. Results of an error analysis -- 3.1. Word-totals, paragraphs, cancellations -- 3.2. Spelling -- 3.3. Punctuation and capitalisation -- 3.4. Inflections, auxiliaries, modais -- 3.5. Idiom -- 3.6. Omissions -- 3.7. Consistency of NP/VP relationships -- 3.8. Lexical choices: Inclusion, exclusion and congruence in meaning -- 4. Implications for the language programme -- References -- ONE PEOPLE, ONE NATION, ONE DESTINY: RACE, ETHNICITY AND GUYANESE SOCIOLINGUISTIC IDENTITY -- 1. Wherefore Guyana -- 2. One people, one nation: Race and ethnicity -- 2.1. Race -- 2.2. Ethnicity -- 3. One destiny: Guyanese sociolinguistic identity -- 3.1. The components -- 3.2. Attitudes and behaviors -- 3.3. The results of interaction and change -- References -- STYLE AND REGISTER IN JAMAICAN PATWA -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Internal varieties in creole studies -- 3. Speaky-Spoky: a creole style -- 4. Rasta Talk: a creole register -- 5. Creole internal varieties: common characteristics of functional codes -- References -- REQUIEMFOR ENGLISH IN AN "ENGLISH-SPEAKING" COMMUNITY: THE CASE OF JAMAICA -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The historical evolution of the roles of English and Creole in Jamaica -- 2.1. The tradition of English as sovereign in colonial and early post-colonial Jamaica -- 2.2. Independence and the evolution of public/formal functions for Jamaican Creole -- 3. The fate of English in contemporary Jamaica -- 4. Prognosis for English -- References -- SIX VERNACULAR TEXTS FROM TRINIDAD, 1838-1851.

1. "The Sorrows of Kitty"-"Spectator". (Trinidad Standard, 1 February 1839, p. 3) -- 2. "Look here, Sambo"-Anonymous. (Trinidad Standard, 13 September 1839, p. 2) -- 3. "New Government Buildings"-"Eavesdropper". (Port of Spain Gazette, 8 November 1844, p. 3) -- 4. "Down de Coste"-"Quasshe". (Trinidad Spectator, 31 March 1847, p. 2) -- 5. "Tode genieman wha rite"-"George Hill", (The Trinidad Spectator and Commercial Gazetteer, 8 January 1848, p. 2) -- 6. "Drama o f a certain day in life"-Anonymous. (The Trinidadian, 7 May 1851, p. 3) -- References -- ASPECTSOF THE SYNTAX OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Varieties within varieties -- 3. Reflexives and reciprocals -- 4. The modal will -- 4.1. A syntactic explanation -- 4.2. A phonological explanation -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- ENCOUNTERS WITH ENGLISH OVER THREE GENERATIONS IN A XHOSA FAMILY: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The background -- 2. 1 The sociolinguistic context -- 2.2. The historical context -- 2.3. The local context -- 3. The Xhosa informants -- 3.1. The grandmother -- 3.1.1. Personal history -- 3.1.2, Grammatical features -- 3.2. The mother -- 3.2.1. Personal history -- 3.2.2. Grammatical features -- 3.3. The daughter -- 3.3. 1 Personal history -- 3.3.2. Syntactic features -- 3.4. Phonetic features -- 3.5. Discourse patterns -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF TOPICALISATION PHENOMENA IN SOUTH AFRICAN BLACK ENGLISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Topicalisation phenomena -- 3.1. An introduction -- 4. Topicalisation phenomena in SABE -- 4.1. Types of topicalisation -- 4.2. Pragmatic functions of focus movement and fronting -- 4.1. Pragmatic functions of left dislocation -- 4.4. Social variation -- 4.5. Topicalisation and the passive -- 5. Conclusions -- References.

BEYOND RECIPES, BEYOND MAKS, BEYOND AFRICA.TEXTS, TEXT-TYPES, TEXT COLLECTIONSAND AFRICAN REALITIES1 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research approaches and African realities -- 3. Text-collections and African realities -- 4. African English and (socio-)linguistic realities -- 4.1. The sociopolitical perspective -- 4.2. The cultural perspectiv -- 4.3. The cognitive perspective -- References -- THE LEXIS OF SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH: REFLECTIONS OF A MULTILINGUAL SOCIETY -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. South Africa's language communities -- 1.2. The position of English in South Africa -- 2. Historical background -- 2.1. English and South African Dutch -- 2,2. 19th century English-speaking immigrants -- 3. Major influences on the South African English vocabulary -- 3.1. South African Dutch and Afrikaans -- 3.2. The African languages -- 3.3. Other influential languages -- 3.4. Special senses of English words, and coined words or phrases -- 3.5. The resistance movements and the period of change -- 4. Perceptions of SAE among English-speaking South Africans -- 4.1. Nineteenth century commentators on SAE -- 4.2. Twentieth century attitudes -- 4.3. A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles -- 5. English in the "new South Africa -- References -- THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN JAPAN -- References -- MISRECOGNITIONS OF VARIABILITY IN NEW VARIETIES OFENGLISH: TAMIL MINORITY USAGE IN SINGAPORE ENGLISH -- References -- PHILIPPINEENGLISH: A VARIETY IN SEARCH OF LEGITIMATION -- 1. Introduction: The English language in the Philippines -- 2. Philippine English in educational use -- 3. Problems of legitimation -- 4. Towards a solution? -- References -- NEGATION ININDIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH -- References -- GRAMMATICALPROPERTIES OF MILNE BAY ENGLISH AND THEIR SOURCES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Geographic and demographic background -- 3. Sociohistorical background.

4. A parallel case: South Australian Cattle Station English -- 5. Structural properties of PPE and Milne Bay English -- 5.1. General remarks -- 5.2. Phonology -- 5.3. Inflectional morphology -- 5.4. Derivational morphology -- 5.5. Syntax -- 6. Differences between PPE and MBE -- 7. Interpretation -- References -- MALAYSIAN ENGLISH: STATUS, NORMS, SOME GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL FEATURES -- 1. Introduction: Malaysian English as compared to its neighbours -- 2. Sociolinguistic background: Which norms? -- 3. Features of acrolectal Malaysian English -- 3.1. Group 1: -- 3.2. Group 2: -- 3.3. Groups 3 and 4: A corpus-based analysis: -- 4. Summary -- References -- ATTEMPTING TO TRACE SCOTTISH INFLUENCE ONNEW ZEALAND ENGLISH -- 1. Introduction: Scottish immigration in New Zealand -- 2. Apologia: Can we spot Scottish influence? -- 3. Scottish influence in New Zealand dialect -- 3.1. Grammar -- 3.2. The verb to want -- 3.3. Lexis -- 3.4. Pronunciation: /r/ retention -- 4. Pronunciation -- 4.1. The [w]/[hw] distinction -- 4.2. Central[I] -- 4.3. Fronted /u/ -- 4.4. [h] retention -- 4.5. Fricative devoicing -- 4.6. [oe] in dance -- 4.7. Vowel length -- 4.8. Vowel neutralisation -- 4.9. Stress -- 5. Grammar -- 5.1. Sentence negation with never -- 5.2. Morphology -- 5.3. Use of the modal may -- 6. Lexis -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- SELECTING SOUTH-EAST ASIAN WORDS FORAN AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY:HOW TO CHOOSE IN AN ENGLISH NOT YOUR OWN -- References -- PLURICENTRICLANGUAGES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY- AN ANTIPODEAN VIEW1 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Australian national identity -- 3. The role of British English in Australia -- 4. Attitudes to Australian English -- 5. Status changes -- 6. Use of varieties of Australian English -- 7. Ethnolects of Australian English -- 8. Concluding remark on Australian English -- 9. New Zealand English.

10. Pluricentric languages and national identity -- 11. Some parallels with Austrian German and Belgian Dutch and some differences -- References -- FOWLER'S LEGACY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assessing Fowler's impact on English usage: using databases -- 3. Fowler's influence on writing about usage in Britain and USA -- 4. Fowler's stance -- 5. Textual evidence for Fowler's influence on usage -- 6. Australian writing on usage -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- SCOTS AS A LITERARY LANGUAGE IN AUSTRALIA -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fictional prose -- 3. Poetry -- 4. Non-fictional prose -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- AUSTRALIANENGLISHAS A NATIONAL LANGUAGE -- References -- Adresses of authors -- Subject index.

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.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha