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English around the World
  • English around the World
  • An Introduction
  • 2nd edition
  • Edgar W. Schneider
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date: July 2020
  • Print publication: 30 July 2020
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    The global spread of English has had widespread linguistic, social, and cultural implications, affecting the lives of millions of people around the world. This textbook provides a lively and accessible introduction to world Englishes, describing varieties used in regions as diverse as America, the Caribbean, Australia, Africa, and Asia, and setting them within their historical and social contexts. Students are guided through the material with chapter summaries, discussion questions and exercises, and a comprehensive glossary, helping them to understand different varieties of English. The second edition is substantially updated, including new sections on English as a Lingua Franca, blurring boundaries, and research methods and resources. The book is accompanied by a useful website, containing textual and audio examples of the varieties introduced in the text. Providing essential knowledge and skills for those embarking on the study of world Englishes, this is a timely update of the leading introduction to the subject.
  • Remembering Tom McArthur
  • Edgar W. Schneider
  • Journal: English Today , First View
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2020, p. 1
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The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes
  • The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes
  • Edited by Daniel Schreier, Marianne Hundt, Edgar W. Schneider
  • Published online: 16 December 2019
  • Print publication: 02 January 2020
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    The plural form 'Englishes' conveys the diversity of English as a global language, pinpointing the growth and existence of a large number of national, regional and social forms. The global spread of English and the new varieties that have emerged around the world has grown to be a vast area of study and research, which intersects multiple disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of World Englishes from 1600 to the present day. Covering topics such as variationist sociolinguistics, pragmatics, contact linguistics, linguistic anthropology, corpus- and applied linguistics and language history, it combines discussion of traditional topics with a variety of innovative approaches. The chapters, all written by internationally acclaimed authorities, provide up-to-date discussions of the evolution of different Englishes around the globe, a comprehensive coverage of different models and approaches, and some original perspectives on current challenges.
  • Chapter 2 - South Africa in the Linguistic Modeling of World Englishes
    • from I - A Framework for English in South Africa
  • Edited by Raymond Hickey, Universität Duisburg–Essen
  • Book: English in Multilingual South Africa
  • Published online: 07 November 2019
  • Print publication: 21 November 2019, pp 16-29
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    This paper summarizes scholarly approaches to varieties of South African English, mainly from the perspective of World Englishes theorizing. South Africa's complex ethnic composition has produced a range of distinctive varieties of English and has defied simplistic notions of dialect evolution. Neither Kachru's “Three Circles” model nor Schneider's “Dynamic Model” allow coherent accounts of South African English as a whole in their respective frameworks. In contrast, many South African scholars, often extrapolating from the “Dynamic Model”, have highlighted the need to focus on internal sub-varieties rather than favouring a national, overall perspective. The questions of how uniform or diverse South African English is and how these relationships can be modelled are widely addressed in scholarship, including ongoing changes, as for example the recent emergence of a pan-ethnic middle class compromise variety described primarily by Rajend Mesthrie.

  • 13 - Perspectives on Language Contact
  • Edited by Laurel J. Brinton, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book: English Historical Linguistics
  • Published online: 06 August 2018
  • Print publication: 03 July 2017, pp 332-359
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    Introduction: “Purity” versus Contact in the History of English

    English is a Germanic language in origin: as is well known, it goes back to the settlement of the British Isles by continental Germanic tribes in 449. However, it has many properties which are quite untypical of this language family (Hawkins 2012: esp. 624–625). The examples under (1) illustrate some cases in point by juxtaposing some patterns of Modern English with their direct equivalents in Modern German, which has retained originally Germanic properties to a much stronger extent:

  • (1)a. Der Hund beisst den Mann. = Den Mann beisst der Hund. The dog bites the man. ≠ The man bites the dog.
  • b. Heute ist Maria nicht da. *Today is Mary not in. Mary is not in today.
  • c. Ich las gestern Abend einen interessanten Artikel. *I read last night an interesting article. I read an interesting article last night.
  • d. Ich kann Englisch. *I can English. I can speak English.
  • e. Kommst du? *Come you? Do you come?
  • f. Wenn man die Vorschläge des Augenarzts bedenkt, … Considering the oculist's proposals, …

    • In (1a), the inflectional endings of German (nominative der and accusative den) clearly identify syntactic functions and semantic roles, and the sequences of these constituents can thus be shuffled around rather liberally. English, in contrast, has lost the endings which it once had, and the identification of sentence functions is thus tied obligatorily to syntactic position within the firm SVO word order – so in the second example the fact that man precedes bites obligatorily implies the reading that the man performs the biting activity (however unlikely this may seem in reality). As (1b) shows, German is still a “verb-second” language, in which the constituent preceding the finite verb need not be the subject, unlike in English. Example (1c) illustrates another facet of the fixed word order of English: in German but not in English other constituents, such as a temporal adverbial, can be inserted between a verb and its direct object. In German, modal verbs still have full verb properties (of taking a direct object as in (1d), for instance); in English they have become auxiliaries which must be supplemented by a full verb. As shown in (1e), English requires an operator do in interrogatives (where full verbs cannot undergo inversion, unlike in German), and also in negatives.

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