- The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: World Englishes and Linguistic Theory
- The Spread of English
- Models of English in the World
- World Englishes and Phonological Theory
- World Englishes and Syntactic and Semantic Theory
- World Englishes and Corpora
- World Englishes and the Study of Typology and Universals
- World Englishes and Cognitive Linguistics
- World Englishes, Second Language Acquisition, and Language Contact
- World Englishes and Creoles
- World Englishes, Code-Switching, and Convergence
- World Englishes and Sociolinguistic Theory
- World Englishes and Dialectology
- World Englishes, Pragmatics, and Discourse
- World Englishes and Language Ideologies
- English, Language Dominance, and Ecolinguistic Diversity Maintenance
- The Atlantic Archipelago of the British Isles
- English in North America
- The Caribbean
- Australian and New Zealand Englishes
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- East African English
- English in West Africa
- English in South Africa
- Isolated Varieties
- English as a Lingua Franca in the Expanding Circle
- On the Intonation of Tonal Varieties of English
- Emergence of the Unmarked in Indian Englishes with Different Substrates
- The Systemic Nature of Substratum Transfer
- Convergent Developments between “Old” and “New” Englishes
- Retention and Innovation in Settler Englishes
- Embedded Inversion as an Angloversal: Evidence from Inner, Outer, and Expanding Circle Englishes
- Canonical Tag Questions in Asian Englishes: Forms, Functions, and Frequencies in Hong Kong English, Indian English, and Singapore English
- Are Constructions Dialect-Proof?: The Challenge of English Variational Data for Construction Grammar Research
- Second-Order Language Contact: English as an Academic Lingua Franca
- Language Index
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
Although areas of potential overlap between the fields of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and World Englishes (WE) may seem obvious, they developed historically in isolation from each other. SLA had a psycholinguistic emphasis, studying the ways in which individuals progressed towards acquisition of a target language. WE studies initially developed a sociolinguistic focus, describing varieties that arose as second languages in former British colonies. This chapter explores the way in which each field could benefit from the other. The SLA emphasis on routes of development, overgeneralization, universals of SLA, and transfer in the interlanguage has relevance to characterizing sub-varieties of WEs. Conversely, the socio-political dimension of early WE studies and the notion of macro- or group acquisition fills a gap in SLA studies which sometimes failed to acknowledge that the goal of second language learners was to become bilingual in ways that were socially meaningful within their societies.
Keywords: transfer, overgeneralization, interlanguage, route of development, Chomskyan universals, macro-acquisition
Rajend Mesthrie is professor of linguistics in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, where he teaches sociolinguistics, especially language contact and variation. He holds a research chair in migration, language, and social change. His books include Introducing Sociolinguistics (with J. Swann, A. Deumert, and W. Leap; Edinburgh UP, 2nd edn., 2009); World Englishes (with R. Bhatt; CUP, 2008); A Dictionary of South African Indian English (UCT Press, 2010); and the edited collections Language in South Africa (CUP, 2002) and A Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics (Pergamon, 2001). His current research focuses on the social dialectology of South African English with reference to accelerated postapartheid social changes. Rajend.Mesthrie@uct.ac.za
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- The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: World Englishes and Linguistic Theory
- The Spread of English
- Models of English in the World
- World Englishes and Phonological Theory
- World Englishes and Syntactic and Semantic Theory
- World Englishes and Corpora
- World Englishes and the Study of Typology and Universals
- World Englishes and Cognitive Linguistics
- World Englishes, Second Language Acquisition, and Language Contact
- World Englishes and Creoles
- World Englishes, Code-Switching, and Convergence
- World Englishes and Sociolinguistic Theory
- World Englishes and Dialectology
- World Englishes, Pragmatics, and Discourse
- World Englishes and Language Ideologies
- English, Language Dominance, and Ecolinguistic Diversity Maintenance
- The Atlantic Archipelago of the British Isles
- English in North America
- The Caribbean
- Australian and New Zealand Englishes
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- East African English
- English in West Africa
- English in South Africa
- Isolated Varieties
- English as a Lingua Franca in the Expanding Circle
- On the Intonation of Tonal Varieties of English
- Emergence of the Unmarked in Indian Englishes with Different Substrates
- The Systemic Nature of Substratum Transfer
- Convergent Developments between “Old” and “New” Englishes
- Retention and Innovation in Settler Englishes
- Embedded Inversion as an Angloversal: Evidence from Inner, Outer, and Expanding Circle Englishes
- Canonical Tag Questions in Asian Englishes: Forms, Functions, and Frequencies in Hong Kong English, Indian English, and Singapore English
- Are Constructions Dialect-Proof?: The Challenge of English Variational Data for Construction Grammar Research
- Second-Order Language Contact: English as an Academic Lingua Franca
- Language Index
- Name Index
- Subject Index
