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- Communicating with Asia
- Communicating with Asia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Book part
- Communicating with Asia: introduction
- Part I English in selected regional and national habitats with a glance at the role of outward-bound communication needs
- 1 The development of English in Pakistan
- 2 English for Japan: in the cultural context of the East Asian Expanding Circle
- 3 Convergence and divergence of English in Malaysia and Singapore
- 4 Indian English prosody
- 5 Charting the endonormative stabilization of Singapore English
- 6 Arabic in contact with English and Malay in Malaysia
- 7 Preposition stranding and pied-piping in Philippine English: a corpus-based study
- 8 The Americanization of the phonology of Asian Englishes: evidence from Singapore
- 9 Postcolonial and learner Englishes in Southeast Asia: implications for international communication
- Part II Major other languages in Asia, their international status and impact on education
- Part III Wider perspectives
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Preposition stranding and pied-piping in Philippine English: a corpus-based study
from Part I - English in selected regional and national habitats with a glance at the role of outward-bound communication needs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2016
- Communicating with Asia
- Communicating with Asia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Book part
- Communicating with Asia: introduction
- Part I English in selected regional and national habitats with a glance at the role of outward-bound communication needs
- 1 The development of English in Pakistan
- 2 English for Japan: in the cultural context of the East Asian Expanding Circle
- 3 Convergence and divergence of English in Malaysia and Singapore
- 4 Indian English prosody
- 5 Charting the endonormative stabilization of Singapore English
- 6 Arabic in contact with English and Malay in Malaysia
- 7 Preposition stranding and pied-piping in Philippine English: a corpus-based study
- 8 The Americanization of the phonology of Asian Englishes: evidence from Singapore
- 9 Postcolonial and learner Englishes in Southeast Asia: implications for international communication
- Part II Major other languages in Asia, their international status and impact on education
- Part III Wider perspectives
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter aims to find out whether preposition stranding (i.e., a preposition that appears without an NP complement) or pied-piping (i.e., a preposition in clause-initial position) (Hoffmann 2007) is a phenomenon in the Philippine variety of English. Using spoken and written texts from the Philippine component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-PHI), the study describes the distribution of preposition stranding and pied-piping in preposed, interrogative, and wh-clauses. Data show that preposition stranding appeared more frequently in spoken texts than in written texts and that, while pied-piping (which is associated with formal or expository registers) showed up in both spoken and written texts, the frequency of its occurrence was higher in the spoken than in the written genre. Findings of the study are related to Filipinos’ tendency to prefer the formal style of English, regardless of the context in which the language is used, or what Gonzalez (1991: 334) calls the “stylistic underdifferentiation” of Philippine English.
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- Communicating with AsiaThe Future of English as a Global Language, pp. 102 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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