English TodayPub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000117
Maciej Widawski
{"title":"Digging the Borrowed Lingo: A Review of Borrowings in Informal American English - Małgorzata Kowalczyk, Borrowings in Informal American English (1st edn.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xii+333. Hardback, $125.00. ISBN: 978-1-00-934687-0.","authors":"Maciej Widawski","doi":"10.1017/s0266078424000117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266078424000117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509553,"journal":{"name":"English Today","volume":"8 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140962126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
English TodayPub Date : 2024-05-13DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000026
Matthew W. L. Yeung, A. Yau, Crystal Y. P. Lee
{"title":"Representativeness of the Hong Kong English lexicon","authors":"Matthew W. L. Yeung, A. Yau, Crystal Y. P. Lee","doi":"10.1017/s0266078424000026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266078424000026","url":null,"abstract":"In 2016, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) formally recognized the status of Hong Kong English (HKE) by adding 13 HKE words in its entries (Oxford English Dictionary [OED], n.d.-a). While this codification marks significant progress in the development of a language variety, there have been vigorous discussions within the local community about the legitimacy and representativeness of these selected words as HKE (Xu, 2019). As emphasized by Schneider (2007), acceptability and codification are both important criteria for language development. Therefore, this warrants a bottom-up approach to investigate the extent to which HKE words are accepted by the local community, so as to provide insights on how future HKE words can be better codified.","PeriodicalId":509553,"journal":{"name":"English Today","volume":"104 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140986145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
English TodayPub Date : 2024-05-13DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000014
Lin Pan, P. Seargeant
{"title":"English as a global language in China","authors":"Lin Pan, P. Seargeant","doi":"10.1017/s0266078424000014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266078424000014","url":null,"abstract":"While the first decade of the 21st century witnessed an unprecedented level of popularity in English across China, the last ten years have seen a fall in the status of English and a meteoric rise of the importance of the Chinese language and culture in the education system (Feng & Adamson, 2019; Pan & Wang, 2024). The changed status of English was exemplified in the 2017 English curriculum standards (2017 ECS) for senior high school students (aged 16–18). A few years after the implementation of this curriculum, this paper explores how teachers and students perceive the changed status of English as prescribed in the 2017 ECS, and what this means for the role of English as a ‘global language’ in China.","PeriodicalId":509553,"journal":{"name":"English Today","volume":"91 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140984578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
English TodayPub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1017/s0266078423000482
Pamela S. H. Bogart
{"title":"English in a contested plurilingual future - Rosemary Salomone, The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 488. Hardback, ISBN: 9780190625610, $37.99; e-book, ISBN: 9780190625634, 0190625635","authors":"Pamela S. H. Bogart","doi":"10.1017/s0266078423000482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266078423000482","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509553,"journal":{"name":"English Today","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139861292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
English TodayPub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1017/s0266078423000482
Pamela S. H. Bogart
{"title":"English in a contested plurilingual future - Rosemary Salomone, The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 488. Hardback, ISBN: 9780190625610, $37.99; e-book, ISBN: 9780190625634, 0190625635","authors":"Pamela S. H. Bogart","doi":"10.1017/s0266078423000482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266078423000482","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509553,"journal":{"name":"English Today","volume":"65 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139801562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}