World Englishes--problems, properties and prospects : selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference / edited by Thomas Hoffmann, Lucia Siebers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series editor's preface: the World Englishes conference in Regensburg 2007 : a retrospective look / Edgar W. Schneider -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers -- Africa. Deracialising the GOOSE vowel in South African English: accelerated linguistic change amongst young, middle class females in post-apartheid South Africa / Rajend Mesthrie -- Codifying Ghanaian English: problems and prospects / Jemima Asabea Anderson -- The Caribbean. Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: Studying educated spoken usage in Jamaica on the basis of the international corpus of English / Christian Mair -- Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English: An analysis of the spoken component of ICE-Jamaica / Ingrid Rosenfelder -- Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad: problems, properties, prospects / Dagmar Deuber -- Australia and New Zealand. Australian English as a regional epicenter / Pam Peters -- Finding one's own vowel space: an acoustic analysis of the speech of Niuean New Zealanders / Laura Thompson, Catherine I. Watson and Donna Starks -- Asia. Language in Hong Kong: ten years on (1997-2007) / Jonathan J. Webster -- The roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systems / Richard Powell -- Not just an "Outer circle", "Asian" English: Singapore English and the significance of ecology / Lisa Lim -- "Where's the party yaar!": discourse particles in Indian English / Claudia Lange -- Innovation in second language phonology: evidence from Hong Kong English / Tony T.N. Hung -- Intelligibility assessment of Japanese accents: a phonological study of science major students' speech / Masako Tsuzuki and Sachiko Nakamura -- Comparative studies. World Englishes between simplification and complexification / Bernd Kortmann and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi -- Global feature, local norms?: A case study on the progressive passive / Marianne Hundt -- The shared core of the perfect across Englishes: a corpus-based analysis / Bertus van Rooy -- Word-formation in New Englishes: properties and trends / Thomas Biermeier -- New approaches. The indigenization of English in North America / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- Perspectives on English as a lingua franca / Margie Berns [and others] -- A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker / Stephanie Hackert -- World Englishes and Peace Sociolinguistics: towards a common goal of linguistic understanding / Patricia Friedrich -- New voices in the canon: the case for including world Englishes in literature / Jill Hallett -- Index.

World Englishes is a vibrant research field that has attracted scholars from many different linguistic subdisciplines. Emphasizing the common ground of all research on World Englishes, the 22 articles in this collected volume, selected from more than a hundred papers presented at the 2007 conference of the International Association for World Englishes in Regensburg, cover a broad range of topics which together reflect the state of the art of research in this field. The volume focuses on regions as diverse as Africa, the Caribbean, the Antipodes and Asia, but also promotes a globally comparativ.

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