{"title":"Review of Honkanen (2020): World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian Diaspora in the USA","authors":"L. Hinrichs","doi":"10.1075/eww.21066.hin","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.21066.hin","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45502,"journal":{"name":"English World-Wide","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43821838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Maltese English as a continuum of sociolinguistic continua through evaluations of written and oral\u0000 prompts","authors":"S. Caruana, Laura Mori","doi":"10.1075/eww.00072.car","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00072.car","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Scientific literature has tackled Maltese English (MaltE) mainly in the framework of World Englishes in order to\u0000 focus on its features compared to other varieties of English around the world. In this paper we shed more light on MaltE by\u0000 proposing a sociolinguistic perspective, oriented towards its social stratification, and by referring to it through degrees of\u0000 linguistic competence in English. We therefore propose two continua of variation: MaltE as an L2 continuum and as a situational\u0000 one. Within this framework, we identify two groups defined as Mainly Maltese Speakers (MMS) and Mainly English Speakers (MES). We\u0000 suggest that MaltE can be interpreted both as an L2, and as a variety used according to speech events, domain, participants,\u0000 in-groupness etc. To investigate this we carried out a perceptual experiment involving two groups of university students,\u0000 specialising in Maltese and English respectively. We discuss the results based on ratings and evaluations of authentic MaltE\u0000 written and spoken prompts.","PeriodicalId":45502,"journal":{"name":"English World-Wide","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47237216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}