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Relationship between English proficiency and socioeconomic status in Asia: Quantitative cross‐national analysis 亚洲英语水平与社会经济地位之间的关系：跨国定量分析
IF 1.6 2区 文学
World Englishes Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/weng.12705
Takunori Terasawa
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Language and identity in the Windrush generation 温德拉什一代的语言和身份
IF 1.6 2区 文学
World Englishes Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/weng.12701
Guyanne Wilson
{"title":"Language and identity in the Windrush generation","authors":"Guyanne Wilson","doi":"10.1111/weng.12701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12701","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how the Windrush generation uses phonological and morphosyntactic elements of Jamaican Creole (JamC), London Jamaican (LonJam) and standard British English (SBE) to do identity work in interviews broadcast as part of a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush. The data comprise oral history interviews with four members of the Windrush generation. The recordings were analysed using the method of lectal focussing in interaction. Results show variation across the four speakers, with some speakers using very few LonJam and SBE features, while others’ speech contains almost exclusively standard British variants. The use of JamC features clustered around topics such as home and family reunification, whereas LonJam features were especially present when interviewees talked about their youth. The study broadens the scope of world Englishes studies by including diasporic and elderly speakers and has important implications for the study of language and identity.","PeriodicalId":23780,"journal":{"name":"World Englishes","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141863111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Negative politeness and no worries in Australian English 澳大利亚英语中的消极礼貌和无忧无虑
IF 1.6 2区 文学
World Englishes Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI: 10.1111/weng.12702
Pam Peters, Isabelle Burke
{"title":"Negative politeness and no worries in Australian English","authors":"Pam Peters, Isabelle Burke","doi":"10.1111/weng.12702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12702","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores how a distinctive politeness token can establish itself in a variety of world English by virtue of its pragmatics. It examines the usage of <jats:italic>no worries</jats:italic> as a negative politeness thanking response in a large multigenerational corpus of informal dialogues by men and women recorded at the University of Western Australia (UWA). Data from this UWA corpus reflect the steady evolution of <jats:italic>no worries</jats:italic>, from its indexical association with Australian men's talk to be taken up by younger Australian women. Though rooted in laconic spoken exchanges, the data also show extended uses of <jats:italic>no worries</jats:italic> in quoted speech as well as narrative reconstructions of spoken encounters to highlight their outcomes. In its further linguistic evolution, it works as a stance adverbial in dramatized interior monologues. It thus acquires new functions in various discourse contexts where a modicum of negative politeness adds value to the narrative or argument.","PeriodicalId":23780,"journal":{"name":"World Englishes","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141863115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Covariation of phonological features in Standardised Scottish English 标准化苏格兰英语中语音特征的变异
IF 1.6 2区 文学
World Englishes Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI: 10.1111/weng.12692
Zeyu Li, Ulrike Gut, Philipp Meer
{"title":"Covariation of phonological features in Standardised Scottish English","authors":"Zeyu Li, Ulrike Gut, Philipp Meer","doi":"10.1111/weng.12692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12692","url":null,"abstract":"Scottish English has characteristic phonological features including rhoticity, the /ʍ/‐/w/ contrast and the lack of the <jats:sc>nurse</jats:sc> merger. However, recent studies have found ongoing changes in Scottish English phonology such as the gradual loss of rhoticity, the merging of /ʍ/‐/w/ and a partial merger of the <jats:sc>nurse</jats:sc> vowels. This paper investigates possible covariation between these features across speakers of Standardised Scottish English. The speech of 30 speakers taken from ICE‐Scotland was analysed for their realisations of the <jats:sc>nurse</jats:sc> lexical set, &lt;wh‐&gt; and rhotics. Underlying structural covariation among these variables was investigated using Principal Components Analysis. The results show covariation between the overall rate of the traditional /ʍ/ variant and rhoticity but not with the realisation of <jats:sc>nurse</jats:sc>. More generally, Standardised Scottish English appears to comprise a range of individual covariation patterns that combine more traditional and more modern pronunciation variants to varying degrees.","PeriodicalId":23780,"journal":{"name":"World Englishes","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141863114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Pidgin English proverbs as a source of structural nativization in Nigerian English 作为尼日利亚英语结构性本土化来源的皮金英语谚语
IF 1.6 2区 文学
World Englishes Pub Date : 2024-07-29 DOI: 10.1111/weng.12699
Marcus Callies, Folajimi Oyebola
{"title":"Pidgin English proverbs as a source of structural nativization in Nigerian English","authors":"Marcus Callies, Folajimi Oyebola","doi":"10.1111/weng.12699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12699","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we explore the role of Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) proverbs in language contact settings and their impact on the development of idiomatic phraseology in Nigerian English (NgE). In a set of 100 NPE proverbs, we identified lexical keywords that served as anchors for searches in the large‐scale Nairaland corpus to detect recurrent collocational patterns that in further proximity searches yielded frequent, lexico‐grammatically variable patterns that may be interpreted as innovations at the early stages of idiom formation. The findings suggest that cognitively motivated key lexical items of NPE proverbs may serve as a basis for the formation of variable but also lexico‐grammatically more condensed idiomatic expressions in NgE.","PeriodicalId":23780,"journal":{"name":"World Englishes","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141863113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The ‘Coloured’ connection of Namibian English 纳米比亚英语与 "有色人种 "的联系
IF 1.6 2区 文学
World Englishes Pub Date : 2024-07-29 DOI: 10.1111/weng.12691
Gerald Stell
{"title":"The ‘Coloured’ connection of Namibian English","authors":"Gerald Stell","doi":"10.1111/weng.12691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12691","url":null,"abstract":"Among the first English speakers in Namibia, South African Coloureds came to form an essential part of an ethnically fluid intermediate social class in colonial Namibia. This study seeks to pinpoint to what extent Coloured English varieties have been contributing to Namibian English and how much prestige is attached to them. To this end, this study simultaneously uses linguistic and perceptual data. One dataset consists of English phonetic data elicited from a representative urban sample of young Namibians. That dataset is analysed to establish what phonetic features mark out Coloured Namibian English varieties and to what extent they are found in other ethnolinguistic varieties and across social classes. The study then reports on a verbal guise experiment whose aim is to establish how young Namibians rate Coloured Namibian English varieties. Finally, the study analyses folk comments on Namibian English accents elicited from young Namibian focus groups. The study finds that, in terms of vowel realization patterns, Coloured Namibian English varieties sit in between White and Black Namibian English varieties, forming part of a continuum of which one extremity displays a White South African English imprint. The less ‘Afrikaans‐accented’ Coloured English varieties—associated with women—are developing middle‐class indexicalities. The fact that these varieties are targeted by young Black women and are perceived as ‘General Namibian English’, the study concludes, confirms that Namibian English is norm‐developing, as befits any Outer Circle variety. It is loosely tied to (South African) Inner Circle norms and has entered Phase 4 (‘endonormative stabilization’) of E. Schneider's Dynamic Model. The normative influence of Namibian Coloured English, the study argues, shows that the Dynamic Model needs fundamental adjustment to properly account for the role of non‐Europeans in Outer Circle dynamics.","PeriodicalId":23780,"journal":{"name":"World Englishes","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141863225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Sociolinguistic variation in Colloquial Singapore English sia 新加坡口语英语的社会语言变异 sia
IF 1.6 2区 文学
World Englishes Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1111/weng.12700
Mohamed Hafiz, Mie Hiramoto, Jakob R. E. Leimgruber, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Jun Jie Lim
{"title":"Sociolinguistic variation in Colloquial Singapore English sia","authors":"Mohamed Hafiz, Mie Hiramoto, Jakob R. E. Leimgruber, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Jun Jie Lim","doi":"10.1111/weng.12700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12700","url":null,"abstract":"Colloquial Singapore English (CSE), also known as ‘Singlish’, features a wide range of sentence‐final particles (SFP) influenced by local languages such as Hokkien, Cantonese, Mandarin and Malay. This study focuses on the SFP <jats:sc>sia</jats:sc>, a relatively new and less‐explored particle with Malay roots. We examine <jats:sc>sia</jats:sc> and its variants (<jats:italic>sia, sial</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>siak</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>siol</jats:italic>) using data from the Corpus of Singapore English Messages, a 6.9‐million‐word text‐message corpus from 2016 to 2022.While previous research has associated <jats:italic>sia</jats:italic> and its variants with strong illocutionary contexts, particularly among young male Singaporeans due to its vulgar and masculine connotations, our data indicate that <jats:sc>sia</jats:sc> is now used more broadly among CSE‐speaking youth. It is employed in both strong and weak illocutionary contexts, suggesting a shift away from its negative/vulgar associations. <jats:italic>Sia</jats:italic> and its variants are emerging as general phatic markers reflecting the identity of CSE‐speaking youth.","PeriodicalId":23780,"journal":{"name":"World Englishes","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141741657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A multifactorial approach to war and corruption metaphors in South Asian Englishes 以多因素方法研究南亚英语中的战争和腐败隐喻
IF 1.6 2区 文学
World Englishes Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1111/weng.12703
Linnea Garlepow, Nina Funke, Barbara Ann Güldenring
{"title":"A multifactorial approach to war and corruption metaphors in South Asian Englishes","authors":"Linnea Garlepow, Nina Funke, Barbara Ann Güldenring","doi":"10.1111/weng.12703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12703","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper provides a corpus‐based study of <jats:sc>war</jats:sc> and <jats:sc>corruption</jats:sc> metaphors in South Asian Englishes (specifically Indian English, Bangladeshi English, Nepali English and Pakistani English). Considering the highly news‐relevant nature of these concepts, the South Asian Varieties of English corpus (SAVE2020) serves as the database. In an initial step, we outline the source domains at different levels of schematicity used to construe <jats:sc>war</jats:sc> and <jats:sc>corruption</jats:sc>, revealing the salient domains <jats:sc>at location</jats:sc> and <jats:sc>person</jats:sc>. By pursuing a multifactorial approach, this study aims at answering the question whether the choice of source domain is governed by the sociolinguistic factors <jats:sc>gender</jats:sc> and <jats:sc>variety</jats:sc>, and intra‐linguistic factors, for example, length and semantic prosody of the metaphor‐related words. It furthermore investigates whether multifactorial analyses, which are still a novelty within research on metaphor variation, constitute a suitable methodological approach. By doing so, our research demonstrates the need to complement this quantitative approach with a qualitative one that offers a more fine‐grained description of the source domains used to structure metaphorical concepts like <jats:sc>war</jats:sc> and <jats:sc>corruption</jats:sc>.","PeriodicalId":23780,"journal":{"name":"World Englishes","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141741660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Testing sociolinguistic theory and methods in world Englishes 在世界英语中检验社会语言学理论和方法
IF 1.6 2区 文学
World Englishes Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1111/weng.12693
Devyani Sharma
{"title":"Testing sociolinguistic theory and methods in world Englishes","authors":"Devyani Sharma","doi":"10.1111/weng.12693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12693","url":null,"abstract":"This article assesses mainstream sociolinguistic theory and methods in the context of world Englishes. Despite its obvious applicability, sociolinguistic theory has not always been the primary analytic model for world Englishes. The multilingual and sometimes mobile circumstances of world Englishes contexts do not always fit the usual definition of a Labovian speech community. This article extends classic sociolinguistic theory and method to studies of Outer Circle English situations to test their validity and scope. Predictions for class, gender, age, peer effects and identity are assessed, all initially developed in monolingual urban Western contexts. Methodological constructs such as apparent time, the sociolinguistics interview and social network metrics are also critically evaluated. The discussion shows that, although these new contexts challenge claims of universality, they often also uphold the original insights. A falsifiable theory of sociolinguistic variation and associated methods remain crucial for a principled understanding of variation and change in world Englishes.","PeriodicalId":23780,"journal":{"name":"World Englishes","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141741662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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On regression modeling in varieties research 关于品种研究中的回归模型
IF 1.6 2区 文学
World Englishes Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1111/weng.12694
Stefan Th. Gries
{"title":"On regression modeling in varieties research","authors":"Stefan Th. Gries","doi":"10.1111/weng.12694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12694","url":null,"abstract":"One particularly prominent methodological development in linguistics is what has been termed the “quantitative turn”: Not only are more and more studies using statistical tools to explore data and to test hypotheses, the complexity of the statistical methods employed is growing as well. This development is particularly prominent in all kinds of corpus‐linguistic studies: 20 years ago chi‐squared tests, <jats:italic>t</jats:italic>‐tests, and Pearson's <jats:italic>r</jats:italic> reigned supreme, but now more and more corpus studies are using multivariate exploratory tools and, for hypothesis testing, multifactorial predictive modeling techniques, in particular regression models (and, increasingly, tree‐based methods). However welcome this development is, it, and especially its pace as well as the fact that few places offer rigorous training in statistical methods, comes with its own risks, chief among them that analytical methods are misapplied, which can lead imprecise, incomplete, or wrong analyses. In this paper, I will revisit a recent regression‐analytic study in the research area of English varieties (on clause‐final <jats:italic>also</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>only</jats:italic> in three Asian Englishes) to: <jats:list list-type=\"bullet\"> <jats:list-item>highlight in particular three fundamental yet frequent mistakes that it exemplifies;</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>discuss why and how each of these mistakes should be addressed;</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>reanalyze the data (as far as is possible with what is available) and show briefly how that affects the analysis's results and interpretation.</jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":23780,"journal":{"name":"World Englishes","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141741661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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