Changing English: Global and Local Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Markku Filppula (editor); Juhani Klemola (editor); Anna Mauranen (editor); Svetlana Vetchinnikova (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 362
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]; 92
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into contact with each other. The articles in this volume set out to combine all these perspectives in ways that give us a better understanding of the changing nature of English in the modern world.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of contents
List of abbreviations
Changing English: global and local perspectives
I. Towards the study of Global English
Editors’ Introduction to Part I
Crisis of the “Outer Circle”? – Globalisation, the weak nation state, and the need for new taxonomies in World Englishes research
The Ecology of Language and the New Englishes: toward an integrative framework
II. Ongoing changes in Englishes around the globe
Editors’ Introduction to Part II
The Present Perfect as a core feature of World Englishes
Innovative structures in the relative clauses of indigenized L2 Asian English varieties
Morphosyntactic typology, contact and variation: Cape Flats English in relation to other South African Englishes in the Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English
Omission of direct objects in New Englishes
The definite article in World Englishes
Aspects of Verb Complementation in New Zealand Newspaper English
Extended uses of the progressive form in Inner, Outer and Expanding Circle Englishes
III. Expanding the horizons: lingua franca, cognitive, and contact-linguistic perspectives
Editors’ Introduction to Part III
A glimpse of ELF
Lending bureaucracy voice: negotiating English in institutional encounters
On the relationship between the cognitive and the communal: a complex systems perspective
Transfer is Transfer; Grammaticalization is Grammaticalization
Subject index
Languages and Varieties index
Author Index