Varieties of English

Kortmann, Bernd; Schröter, Verena

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“…Australian English may also be another Inner Circle variety local Chinese are relatively familiar with as there have been increasing numbers of Hong Kong people who have emigrated to or studied in Australia since the last decade and/or might have returned to Hong Kong. As for the NNS accents, Filipinos and Indians comprise 29.5 per cent and 6.3 per cent of the local minority population respectively in 2011 (Census and Statistics Department ) and both these Englishes, like HKE, are emerging varieties with distinctive pronunciation features (Kortmann, Upton, Schneider, Burridge, and Mesthrie ). The choice of a Chinese English pronunciation is due largely to the increasingly frequent contact between Hong Kong people and mainland Chinese in the political, economic, cultural and education domains since the handover and, according to the Tourism Commission (), mainland visitors account for 67.0 per cent of Special Administrative Region's (SAR) total arrivals.…”

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“…While some speakers had experience of living in an Inner Circle country, the key selection criterion is that they should have the distinctive phonological features of their accents (e.g. RP and general American (GA) for British and American pronunciation respectively) based on previous research, namely Learner English (Swan and Smith ), International English (Trudgill and Hannah ), Varieties of English (Kortmann et al ) and Hong Kong English (Setter et al ; also Hung ; Deterding et al ). The selection of speech samples was made by three researchers, including both NSs and NNSs, who listened to the samples and cross‐checked with the phonetic transcriptions provided in the speech archive.…”

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Contextual variation and Hong Kong English

Chan¹

2013

World Englishes

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One of the decisive factors in Schneider's innovative Dynamic Model for the transition from phase 3 (nativisation) to phase 4 (endonormative stabilisation) for the case of Hong Kong English (HKE) is the parameter of local acceptance. This paper examines the attitudes of young professionals towards native vis-à-vis non-native English accents in a number of English-speaking contexts in Hong Kong by means of the verbal-guise technique, focus group discussions and a written task. The findings suggest that many of the participants have the ability to distinguish native speakers' from non-native speakers' accents. Although an Anglophone-centric attitude is still found to be prominent in high-stakes English-using situations, there seems to be a tendency that the less formal and more interactive the communication context, the fewer reservations the participants have about non-native accents. The correlation analysis indicates a lack of association between the participants' perceived intelligibility and their preferred accents in nearly all of the designated contexts for the case of HKE and, thus, the paper offers explanations based on the tension between English pronunciation as economic capital and identity carrier in local people's perception. It concludes by discussing the implications of this contextual variation in pronunciation acceptance for future attitudinal studies.

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Contextual variation and Hong Kong English

Chan¹

2013

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“…NeighborNet output of typological and areal clusters of 76 varieties in eWAVE 2.0 (reproduced from Kortmann & Schröter, 2017, p. 308)…”

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Hundt

2020

World Englishes

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World Englishes (WE) research has been invested in getting to grips with the diversity of different Englishes and in making sense of their structural properties. The first research strand led to a proliferation of theoretical models, the second to comparative research relying increasingly on sophisticated statistical modelling. The connection between these research strands is not always as clear as we might wish, and occasionally even rather tenuous. This paper revisits existing models of WEs with a view to their predictive power and reviews recent corpus‐based studies with respect to the ways that these have tried to operationalise predictions of theoretical models. It uses a mental model to understand exactly why it is apparently so difficult to bring intricate, quantitative modelling of usage data to bear on theoretical modelling.

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“…In addition, there also exist several unpublished theses and articles such as Alameda Hernańdez (2006), Ballantine (1983), Lipski (1986), Moyer (1993) and Weston (2011). The status of Gibraltar as a relative blank spot on the map of postcolonial varieties of English may be illustrated by its absence from such authoritative recent references on world and postcolonial dialects of English as Kortmann and Schneider (2008) or Schreier et al (2010), or its omission from Trudgill's groundbreaking study of new dialect formation in the Englishspeaking world (Trudgill 2006).…”

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Brexit – and now what? A post-referendum survey into linguistic and national attitudes in Gibraltar

Paciorkowski

2019

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The present paper sets out to gauge the post-Brexit referendum attitudes of Gibraltarians concerning language and political outlooks. A survey was created in order to gather the necessary qualitative and quantitative data. It was spread using Facebook groups and a total of 38 questionnaires were collected. The results of the research suggest that Gibraltar is still highly conflicted over Brexit, there is an ongoing attrition of Spanish, and English seems to be continuously gaining linguistic ground. More detailed research is, however, needed to evaluate the ongoing changes with greater certainty.

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Varieties of English

Cited by 6 publications

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Contextual variation and Hong Kong English

Contextual variation and Hong Kong English

On models and modelling

Brexit – and now what? A post-referendum survey into linguistic and national attitudes in Gibraltar

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