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The get-passive in Tyneside English 泰恩赛德英语中的被动语态
IF 0.4 4区 文学
English World-Wide Pub Date : 2022-05-16 DOI: 10.1075/eww.21039.feh
C. Fehringer
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引用次数: 1
Exploring age-related changes in the realisation of (t) 探索实现(t)的年龄相关变化
IF 0.4 4区 文学
English World-Wide Pub Date : 2022-05-10 DOI: 10.1075/eww.21011.buc
I. Buchstaller, Adam Mearns, A. Auer, Anne Krause-Lerche
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引用次数: 0
Between first language influence, exonormative orientation and migration 在第一语言影响、外来语倾向和迁移之间
IF 0.4 4区 文学
English World-Wide Pub Date : 2022-04-15 DOI: 10.1075/eww.21014.mei
Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma
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引用次数: 6
Produced and perceived authenticity in the Northern Irish TV show Derry Girls 北爱尔兰电视节目《德里女孩》的制作和真实性
IF 0.4 4区 文学
English World-Wide Pub Date : 2022-03-18 DOI: 10.1075/eww.20012.dia
Sara Díaz-Sierra
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引用次数: 0
How real has the long-anticipated fast-growing influence of American English on Kenyan English been? 人们期待已久的美国英语对肯尼亚英语的快速影响有多真实?
IF 0.4 4区 文学
English World-Wide Pub Date : 2022-03-02 DOI: 10.1075/eww.21049.bur
A. Buregeya
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引用次数: 0
50 years of British accent bias 50年的英国口音偏见
IF 0.4 4区 文学
English World-Wide Pub Date : 2022-03-02 DOI: 10.1075/eww.20010.sha
D. Sharma, E. Levon, Yang Ye
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引用次数: 10
Regional variation in British English voice quality 英国英语音质的地区差异
IF 0.4 4区 文学
English World-Wide Pub Date : 2021-12-03 DOI: 10.1075/eww.20007.gol
E. Gold, Christin Kirchhübel, K. Earnshaw, Sula Ross
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引用次数: 2
Intensifying and downtoning in South Asian Englishes 南亚英语的强化和弱化
IF 0.4 4区 文学
English World-Wide Pub Date : 2021-11-17 DOI: 10.1075/eww.21064.fun
Nina Funke, Tobias Bernaisch
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引用次数: 1
The trappings of order 秩序的外衣
IF 0.4 4区 文学
English World-Wide Pub Date : 2021-11-17 DOI: 10.1075/eww.21020.oen
Raymond Oenbring, Matthias Klumm
{"title":"The trappings of order","authors":"Raymond Oenbring, Matthias Klumm","doi":"10.1075/eww.21020.oen","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.21020.oen","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study builds off of previous research into Caribbean Standard Englishes (which has largely used newspaper genres) by comparing the rates of features found in corpora of Bahamian, Jamaican, British, and American administrative writing, paying particular attention to whether and how the noted formality of Caribbean Standard Englishes manifests itself in administrative writing. The study employs expanded versions of ICE administrative subcorpora for the analysis. Features analyzed include lexis, orthography, as well as different morphosyntactic constructions such as be-passives and modals of obligation and necessity. The study finds that the contemporary British administrative writing corpus contains the most informal lexical choice of the national corpora studied, problematizing a Caribbean folk narrative that associates formality in administrative language and practice with Britishness.","PeriodicalId":45502,"journal":{"name":"English World-Wide","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48329074","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}
引用次数: 1
Into-causatives in World Englishes 世界英语中的致使句
IF 0.4 4区 文学
English World-Wide Pub Date : 2021-11-16 DOI: 10.1075/eww.21068.bru
Thomas W. Brunner
{"title":"Into-causatives in World Englishes","authors":"Thomas W. Brunner","doi":"10.1075/eww.21068.bru","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.21068.bru","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper analyses the frequency and use of the relatively rare, yet highly productive\u0000 into-causative construction in twenty varieties of English on the basis of the 1.9-billion word Corpus of\u0000 Web-based Global English (GloWbE; Davies 2013)1 and Schneider’s (2007) Dynamic Model. It hypothesises\u0000 differences in frequency, variation in the preference for particularly frequent fillers as well as productivity differences in\u0000 line with Schneider’s stages of linguistic evolution. However, it shows that only frequency differences reflect the Dynamic Model;\u0000 with regard to the preference for frequent realisations and productivity, postcolonial varieties turn out to be very similar to\u0000 British English. These results come as a surprise against the background of similar studies of the\u0000 way-construction, where all of these effects have been documented convincingly. It is argued that the properties\u0000 of into-causatives themselves (e.g. their idiomatic and semantic simplicity) might contribute to their more\u0000 native-like usage patterns in postcolonial varieties of English.","PeriodicalId":45502,"journal":{"name":"English World-Wide","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47776731","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}
引用次数: 1
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