The interplay of the national, regional, and global in standards of English

IF 0.8 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

English World-Wide Pub Date : 2019-09-24 DOI:10.1075/eww.00031.han

Eva Canan Hänsel, Dagmar Deuber

引用次数: 6

Abstract

An accent recognition survey was designed and distributed among respondents from the anglophone Caribbean with the aim of finding out whether they can recognize different standard accents of English as spoken by newscasters from five Caribbean countries, namely Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. The results revealed that there is a general difficulty in placing Caribbean newscaster accents in the correct country. The only exception was a Trinidadian accent that was recognized in 60 per cent of all cases. The results suggest that in the context of newscaster accents, recognizable national standard varieties are the exception. This paper also introduces the idea that to some extent, standard accents of English in the Caribbean might be recognizable on a subregional level.

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国家、地区和全球在英语标准方面的相互作用

设计了一项口音识别调查，并在讲英语的加勒比地区受访者中分发，目的是了解他们是否能识别来自五个加勒比国家（即牙买加、圣基茨和尼维斯、多米尼克、圣文森特和格林纳丁斯和特立尼达和多巴哥）的新闻播音员所说的不同标准英语口音。结果显示，要将加勒比新闻播音员的口音放在正确的国家，普遍存在困难。唯一的例外是特立尼达口音，60%的病例都能识别出这种口音。研究结果表明，在新闻播音员口音的背景下，可识别的国家标准品种是例外。本文还介绍了这样一种观点，即在某种程度上，加勒比地区的标准英语口音可能在次区域层面上是可以识别的。

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期刊介绍： English World-Wide has established itself as the leading and most comprehensive journal dealing with varieties of English. The focus is on scholarly discussions of new findings in the dialectology and sociolinguistics of the English-speaking communities (native and second-language speakers), but general problems of sociolinguistics, creolistics, language planning, multilingualism and modern historical sociolinguistics are included if they have a direct bearing on modern varieties of English. Although teaching problems are normally excluded, English World-Wide provides important background information for all those involved in teaching English throughout the world.