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Acquisition and Variation in World Englishes

Bridging Paradigms and Rethinking Approaches
  • Edited by: Mirjam Schmalz , Manuela Vida-Mannl , Sarah Buschfeld and Thorsten Brato
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024
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This book is the first of its kind to provide an integrative look at World Englishes, (second) language acquisition, and sociolinguistics in a variety of contexts of English around the globe with a focus on the language of children and adolescents. It thus aims to bridge the paradigm gaps that have been identified between these approaches but have rarely been explored in greater detail.

The range of topics includes the areas of first and second language acquisition; sociolinguistic variation and awareness; language use and choice; family language policies; language attitudes and perception; modelling children’s and adolescents’ language in World Englishes; the role of child language acquisition in processes of language change; as well as methodologies of eliciting speech and writing from children and adolescents. The book combines qualitative and quantitative approaches and draws on psycholinguistic, corpus-linguistic, and ethnographic methodologies. What unites the contributions to the volume is that they all address the theoretical implications that a joint approach between World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition has, i.e. why it is fruitful and how it can contribute to a deeper understanding of the different research paradigms.

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Mirjam Schmalz, Univ. of Zurich; Manuela Vida-Mannl and Sarah Buschfeld, TU Dortmund Univ.; Thorsten Brato, Univ. of Regensburg.


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Manuela Vida-Mannl, Mirjam Schmalz and Sarah Buschfeld
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Part I: Language in the family

Guyanne Wilson
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Teresa Wai See Ong and Su-Hie Ting
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Kamolwan Fairee Jocuns and Andrew Jocuns
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Manuela Vida-Mannl
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Part II: Language acquisition and language learning in multilingual contexts

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Sarah Buschfeld and Gerold Schneider
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Giuliana Regnoli and Thorsten Brato
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Patricia Ronan and Sarah Buschfeld
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Part III: Attitudes and identity

Mirjam Schmalz
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Jette G. Hansen Edwards
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Stefan Dollinger, Vanessa Chan, Kate Pasula and Anthony Maag
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Naashia Mohamed
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Part IV: Summary and discussion

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eBook published on:
December 4, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9783110733723
Hardcover published on:
December 4, 2023
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110738384
Paperback published on:
June 30, 2025
Paperback ISBN:
9783112213803
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Front matter:
7
Main content:
382
Illustrations:
41
Coloured Illustrations:
19
Tables:
44
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