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Modeling world Englishes from the perspective of language contact
Ist Teil von
World Englishes, 2016-06, Vol.35 (2), p.196-220
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
ABSTRACT
Research into world Englishes has continued to expand and diversify since the publication of foundational studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. From then on, the question of how to model the plurality of Englishes has inspired a range of answers given in different theoretical models. After tracing some of the major approaches to classifying the diversity of Englishes in the world, this paper explores the notion of language contact as an underlying mechanism for all Englishes. A model of language contact is developed, which forms the background for proposing the Language Contact Typology (LCT) of world Englishes. The LCT offers a new way of categorizing Englishes, providing an alternative framing to existing models in the field. It also bears some implications on the controversial notion of ‘native speaker’ in the world Englishes paradigm.