Modeling World Englishes in the 21st century
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Sandra C. Deshors
Abstract
This chapter seeks to bring together all the contributions in the volume. We identify converging lines of argumentation and findings across the studies featured in the book and we show how the approaches they adopt and the linguistic patterns they uncover shed new light on globalized Englishes, the diversity of their uses and their emerging functions. Based on these studies, we discuss possible avenues for future research in the modeling process of World Englishes (WEs) and we make suggestions as to what contemporary theoretical models of WEs should look like in order to truly capture the developmental patterns of WEs in the 21st century. Generally, it emerges that theoretical models anchored in the ‘moment of communication’ are likely to reflect most effectively the intricate dynamics that lies behind the development of Englishes worldwide and that is stirred by linguistic, pragmatic, social, ideological and cultural forces, simultaneously.
Abstract
This chapter seeks to bring together all the contributions in the volume. We identify converging lines of argumentation and findings across the studies featured in the book and we show how the approaches they adopt and the linguistic patterns they uncover shed new light on globalized Englishes, the diversity of their uses and their emerging functions. Based on these studies, we discuss possible avenues for future research in the modeling process of World Englishes (WEs) and we make suggestions as to what contemporary theoretical models of WEs should look like in order to truly capture the developmental patterns of WEs in the 21st century. Generally, it emerges that theoretical models anchored in the ‘moment of communication’ are likely to reflect most effectively the intricate dynamics that lies behind the development of Englishes worldwide and that is stirred by linguistic, pragmatic, social, ideological and cultural forces, simultaneously.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Alexander Kautzsch In memoriam ix
- Modeling World Englishes in the 21st century 1
- From colonial dynamism to current transnationalism 15
- Stabilising domains of English-language use in Germany 45
- Hybridity, globalisation and models of Englishes 77
- Placing ELF among the varieties of English 109
- Modeling World Englishes from a cross-linguistic perspective 133
- “I’m an Anglophile, but …” 163
- American and/or British influence on L2 Englishes – Does context tip the scale(s)? 187
- It is time that this (should) be studied across a broader range of Englishes 217
- A corpus-linguistic account of the history of the genitive alternation in Singapore English 245
- Modeling World Englishes in the 21st century 281
- Index 295
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Alexander Kautzsch In memoriam ix
- Modeling World Englishes in the 21st century 1
- From colonial dynamism to current transnationalism 15
- Stabilising domains of English-language use in Germany 45
- Hybridity, globalisation and models of Englishes 77
- Placing ELF among the varieties of English 109
- Modeling World Englishes from a cross-linguistic perspective 133
- “I’m an Anglophile, but …” 163
- American and/or British influence on L2 Englishes – Does context tip the scale(s)? 187
- It is time that this (should) be studied across a broader range of Englishes 217
- A corpus-linguistic account of the history of the genitive alternation in Singapore English 245
- Modeling World Englishes in the 21st century 281
- Index 295
