A profile of the Fiji English lexis

Tent, Jan

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“…As for instance shown by Tent (2001) for Fiji English, postcolonial Englishes acquire a number of interesting new words or senses over the centuries that may strike speakers of standardised British English as rather unusual at first glance. Naturally, in early contact situations, British colonisers, arriving at an unknown environment and coming to terms with unknown cultures, tend to take over or ‘borrow’ words from the native language(s) of a particular kind: toponymic expressions that are already widely used by the indigenous population to name villages, islands, mountains and any place special in terms of its geological shape or cultural importance; expressions to name animals, plants, food items or any cultural objects and concepts that are integral to the country, and therefore known to its indigenous population and new to the colonisers.…”

Section: Structural Characteristics Of Samoan Englishmentioning

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Samoan English: An emerging variety in the South Pacific

Biewer

2020

World Englishes

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While much has been published on Outer Circle varieties of English in Asia and Africa, Outer Circle Englishes in the South Pacific (SPE) are still relatively unknown. This paper focuses on Samoan English, a newly emerging variety in Samoa, an island state in Polynesia. The paper discusses the role of English in Samoa's past and present and describes major structural features of Samoan English in terms of its phonology, lexicon and grammar. Local discourse and pragmatic strategies will also be touched upon. The study is based on recordings of Samoan speakers made during a field trip and a newspaper corpus of 300,000 words from the Samoa Observer, a local newspaper. The study demonstrates that we can indeed speak of Samoan English as a variety in the making and that it is useful to consider SPE to gain a better understanding of the evolution and nature of Outer Circle Englishes in general.

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Section: Structural Characteristics Of Samoan Englishmentioning

confidence: 97%

Samoan English: An emerging variety in the South Pacific

Biewer

2020

World Englishes

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“…In the flora and fauna, the names such as yaqona (Fiji's traditional drink), ivi (Tahitian chestnut), baka tree (banyan tree), ota (sea weed), tiri (mangrove), walu (kingfish), kaikoso (shell fish) and roti or Indian bread are some borrowings which have become a common occurrence in conversations (Mangubhai and Mugler, 2003, p.385). Some words have also been borrowed from colonial English, for example, compound and archaisms such as thrice (Tent 2000(Tent , 2001, cited in Mangubhai and Mugler, 2003, p.385).…”

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Development of Fiji English

Ali-Chand

2021

JWEEP

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This paper traces the development of Fiji English as a variety of English distinct from standard British English. This variety of English has been used colloquially; however, in the recent past, it has been slowly creeping in to students’ academic papers. Some of its vocabulary may be seen to be quite distinct from standard British English. This paper will first discuss the classifications and models of World Englishes that have been proposed by scholars such as Kachru, Schneider, Quirk and Bolton, among others. These classifications try and explain the differences in the ways English developed its own varieties in different countries. It will then attempt to explain the stages Fiji English went through to give birth to its own distinct variety of English. Finally, it will examine some of the sources of Fiji English lexis.

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“…This section categorises the 'core' vocabulary of HKE in terms of word-formation and on the basis of the analytical frameworks employed by Bolton (2003) and Tent (2001). This vocabulary comprises the 261 items in the HKE lexicon that appear in three or more of the five corpora analysed in the present study.…”

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Word-formation in Hong Kong English: diachronic and synchronic perspectives

Evans

2015

Asian Englishes

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The publication of the first dictionary of Hong Kong English (HKE) marks a major milestone in the legitimisation of HKE as an autonomous variety of English. This article examines the emergence and current prevalence of the vocabulary of HKE using five recently compiled corpora of English in Hong Kong. The diachronic perspective is provided by a 91-million-word corpus of Legislative Council proceedings (1858-2012) and a collection of 1379 letters published in the city's leading Englishlanguage newspapers (1842-2010). The synchronic perspective is derived from a three-million-word corpus of lifestyle-magazine articles (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012), a database containing 2820 letters published in the South China Morning Post in 2012 and the well-known Corpus of Global Web-based English. These corpora are used to assess the representativeness of the HKE lexicon compiled by the authors of the dictionary, to identify the principal processes of word-formation and to determine phases in the evolution of the HKE vocabulary.

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A profile of the Fiji English lexis

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Samoan English: An emerging variety in the South Pacific

Samoan English: An emerging variety in the South Pacific

Development of Fiji English

Word-formation in Hong Kong English: diachronic and synchronic perspectives

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