Chapter 8. Short-term diachronic and variety-internal approaches to textual functionality in South Asian Englishes
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Tobias Bernaisch
Abstract
To empirically trace functional characteristics of texts such as speaker/writer involvement, narrativity or persuasiveness with a view to potential (a) intra-national variability in Indian English and (b) short-term diachronic change in South Asian Englishes, the South Asian Varieties of English (SAVE) corpus, its updated version SAVE2020, and the Corpus of Regional Indian Newspaper Englishes (CORINNE) are subjected to Multidimensional Analysis (MDA, Biber 1988) as implemented in Nini (2019). A hierarchical cluster analysis of the respective MDA scores reveals the tendency of mesolectal Indian Englishes as well as acrolectal Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan English to employ features of a conceptually written nature more readily than acrolectal Indian, Maldivian, Nepali, and Pakistani English. Still, in the observed time span of 15 years, the acrolects of South Asian Englishes also develop towards conceptually written language.
Abstract
To empirically trace functional characteristics of texts such as speaker/writer involvement, narrativity or persuasiveness with a view to potential (a) intra-national variability in Indian English and (b) short-term diachronic change in South Asian Englishes, the South Asian Varieties of English (SAVE) corpus, its updated version SAVE2020, and the Corpus of Regional Indian Newspaper Englishes (CORINNE) are subjected to Multidimensional Analysis (MDA, Biber 1988) as implemented in Nini (2019). A hierarchical cluster analysis of the respective MDA scores reveals the tendency of mesolectal Indian Englishes as well as acrolectal Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan English to employ features of a conceptually written nature more readily than acrolectal Indian, Maldivian, Nepali, and Pakistani English. Still, in the observed time span of 15 years, the acrolects of South Asian Englishes also develop towards conceptually written language.
Chapters in this book
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
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Crossing boundaries
- Chapter 2. New approaches to investigating change in derivational productivity 8
- Chapter 3. A corpus-based comparative acoustic analysis of target-like vowel production by L1-Japanese learners and native speakers of English 41
- Chapter 4. Digital Dickens 62
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Crossing boundaries
- Chapter 5. 120 years of reporting clauses 100
- Chapter 6. Establishing a ‘new normal’ 125
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Crossing boundaries
- Chapter 7. Syntactic segmentation of spoken corpus data 154
- Chapter 8. Short-term diachronic and variety-internal approaches to textual functionality in South Asian Englishes 192
- Chapter 9. Do corpus data on World Englishes inspire tolerance of variation in ELT professionals? 217
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Crossing boundaries
- Chapter 10. Query a corpus in near-natural language 248
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 263
Chapters in this book
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
-
Crossing boundaries
- Chapter 2. New approaches to investigating change in derivational productivity 8
- Chapter 3. A corpus-based comparative acoustic analysis of target-like vowel production by L1-Japanese learners and native speakers of English 41
- Chapter 4. Digital Dickens 62
-
Crossing boundaries
- Chapter 5. 120 years of reporting clauses 100
- Chapter 6. Establishing a ‘new normal’ 125
-
Crossing boundaries
- Chapter 7. Syntactic segmentation of spoken corpus data 154
- Chapter 8. Short-term diachronic and variety-internal approaches to textual functionality in South Asian Englishes 192
- Chapter 9. Do corpus data on World Englishes inspire tolerance of variation in ELT professionals? 217
-
Crossing boundaries
- Chapter 10. Query a corpus in near-natural language 248
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 263
