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World Englishes in Action
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Get into groups of 3 and share your ho
responses for today. What countries did you pick?
What did you notice about the English sp
Did your groupmates notice anything diff
Small Group Warm
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Received Pronunciation (RP)
Lexical, phonological, and grammaticvariation
Pidgin
Basilect, mesolect, acrolect
Chain shift
Some Terms
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Aborigines
160,000 English convicts
sent to Australia in 18th
and 19th centuries
1851 gold rush
Multicultural migrationbeginning in 1960s
Most Aboriginal
languages are dying out
Australia: Background
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Lexicon
Colloquial, informal Aboriginal loanwords for flora and fauna: ka
dingo, koala
Phonology Wider diphthongs: /e/ to // Vowels pronounced as diphthongs: see pron
/s/ Higher vowels: ham pronounced /hm/
Grammar Similar to England and US http://www.dialectsarchive.com/australia-24
Australia: Language
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Class variation in AusE
Broad (basilect), General (mesolect), and(acrolect)
Aboriginal Australian English
Evolved from English/Aboriginal pidgin
Linguistic and pragmatic differences http://www.dialectsarchive.com/australia
New Australian English/wogspeak
Exaggeration of Australian features
Australia: Variation
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Dutch coloniz
(English came Class distincti
English settler
1822: English
official langu
English is now
official langu
South Africa: Background
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Former British colony
Linguistic and culturalassimilation
India alone had 1,652
languages in 1961
14 official languages in
the region
India: Background
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Lexicon
Loanwords from local languages: yoga, jungbungalow Kinship terms like auntie and uncle
Phonology Syllables are given equal weight (syllable-tim Fricatives // and // pronounced like t and
Grammar The with proper nouns Tag questions (He was angry, [yes/no/isnt it http://www.dialectsarchive.com/india-4
India: Language
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English introd
through tradi(English/Chin
Missionary sccentury
English fell ou
with Mao Zedregained statCultural Revo
Used for intercommunicat
China: Background
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Lexicon
Semantic shift (big pot means egalitarian Phonology
No distinction between tense and lax vowand hit)
Fricatives // and // replaced bys andz
Grammar Rarely uses articles
No distinction between adjectives and ad
http://www.dialectsarchive.com/guangx
China: Language
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How do World Englishes differ from Am
English in terms of pronunciation, vocaand sentence structure?
How and why do World Englishes dev
How is dialect tied to identity?
How will English develop in the future?
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