English Around the World: Sociolinguistic PerspectivesJenny Cheshire This volume looks at the little explored but increasingly important topic of the development of English as a world language. It gives a comprehensive account of our current knowledge of variation in the use of the English language around the world. Overview papers, written by specialist authors, survey the social context in which English is spoken in those parts of the world where it is widely used. Case study papers then provide representative examples of the empirical research that has been carried out into the English spoken in the areas covered by the overview. The volume therefore contributes both to our understanding of the English language worldwide and to a more general understanding of language as it is used in its social context. It assesses the extent of our current knowledge of variation in the English language and points to gaps in our understanding which future research might set out to remedy. |
Contents
The UK and the USA | 13 |
Ireland | 37 |
Urban and rural varieties of HibernoEnglish | 51 |
Sociolinguistic variation and methodology after as a Dublin variable | 61 |
The interpretation of social constraints on variation in Belfast English | 75 |
Canada | 89 |
Phonological variation and recent language change in St Johns English | 108 |
Sociophonetic variation in Vancouver | 123 |
Social and linguistic constraints on variation in the use of two grammatical variables in Singapore English | 376 |
East Africa Tanzania and Kenya | 391 |
The politics of the English language in Kenya and Tanzania | 402 |
National and subnational features in Kenyan English | 420 |
Southern Africa | 435 |
Sources and consequences of miscommunication in Afrikaans English South African English encounters | 446 |
Syntactic variation in South African Indian English the relative clause | 462 |
The social significance of language use and language choice in a Zambian urban setting an empirical study of three neighbourhoods in Lusaka | 474 |
Social differentiation in Ottawa English | 134 |
New Zealand | 153 |
Social constraints on the phonology of New Zealand English | 169 |
Maori English a New Zealand myth? | 187 |
Sporting formulae in New Zealand English two models of male solidarity | 200 |
Australia | 213 |
ae and a in Australian English | 227 |
Variation in subjectverb agreement in Inner Sydney English | 235 |
Australian Creole English the effect of cultural knowledge on language and memory | 256 |
South Asia | 271 |
Final consonant cluster simplification in a variety of Indian English | 288 |
Patterns of language use in a bilingual setting in India | 299 |
Speech acts in an indigenised variety sociocultural values and language variation | 308 |
Southeast Asia and Hong Kong | 319 |
Stylistic shifts in the English of the Philippine print media | 333 |
Variation in Malaysian English the pragmatics of languages in contact | 364 |
West Africa | 493 |
The pronoun system in Nigerian Pidgin a preliminary study | 509 |
The sociolinguistics of prepositional usage in Nigerian English | 519 |
Social and linguistic constraints on plural marking in Liberian English | 545 |
The Caribbean | 565 |
Standardisation in a creole continuum situation the Guyana case | 585 |
Gender roles and linguistic variation in the Belizean Creole community | 595 |
Sociolinguistic variation in Cane Walk a quantitative case study | 609 |
The Pacific | 619 |
Watching girls pass by in Tok Pisin | 637 |
Sociolinguistic variation and language attitudes in Hawaii | 647 |
Variation in Fiji English | 664 |
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