Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century: Language, Society and Culture

The book’s ecological perspective offers a fresh theoretical framework for analysing both outer- and inner-circle Englishes. It investigates the varieties of English spoken as a second language, by bi- or multilingual speakers in South Africa, India, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines, and by some lesser-known oceanic varieties in Micronesia and Polynesia, revealing the remarkable divergences in the use of common English elements across geographical distances. Tapping into current debates about colonial legacies and decolonization, as well as ongoing concerns about democracy, regional power and globalisation, this book explores a range of fresh evidence to discuss language variation across the globe. Frontmatter Contents Figures and Tables Contributors Acknowledgement CHAPTER 1 - Introduction: Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century: Language, Society and Culture CHAPTER 2 - Platform Paper: Reflections of Cultures in Corpus Texts: Focus on the Indo-Pacific Region CHAPTER 3 - Reflections of Afrikaans in the English Short Stories of Herman Charles Bosman CHAPTER 4 - Susmaryosep! Lexical Evidence of Cultural Influence in Philippine English CHAPTER 5 - Cultural Keywords in Indian English CHAPTER 6 - Lexicopragmatics between Cultural Heritage and Exonormative Second Language Acquisition: Address Terms, Greetings and Discourse Markers in Ugandan English CHAPTER 7 - Cultural Relations? Kinship Terminology in Three Islands in the Northern Pacific CHAPTER 8 - Somewhere between Australia and Malaysia and ‘I’ and ‘we’: Verbalising Culture on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands CHAPTER 9 - Expressing Concepts Metaphorically in English Editorials in the Sinosphere CHAPTER 10 - L1 Singapore English: The Influence of Ethnicity and Input CHAPTER 11 - Across Three Kachruvian Circles with Two Parts-of-speech: Nouns and Verbs in ENL, ESL and EFL Varieties CHAPTER 12 - Modality, Rhetoric and Regionality in English Editorials in the Sinosphere CHAPTER 13 - Where Grammar Meets Culture: Pronominal Systems in Australasia and the South Pacific Revisited CHAPTER 14 - Decolonisation and Neo-colonialism in Aboriginal Education CHAPTER 15 - Modal and Semi-modal Verbs of Obligation in the Australian, New Zealand and British Hansards, 1901–2015 CHAPTER 16 - Privileging Informality: Cultural Influences on the Structural Patterning of Australian English CHAPTER 17 - The Auckland Voices Project: Language Change in a Changing City Index