Mukherjee / Hundt Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes

Bridging a paradigm gap
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-8714-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 44, 228 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Corpus Linguistics

The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes and second-language varieties are typically non-native forms of English that emerge in language contact situations, it is high time that they are described and compared on an empirical basis in order to draw conceptual and theoretical conclusions with regard to their form, function and acquisition. The present collection of articles places special emphasis on empirical evidence obtained from large-scale analyses of computerised corpora of learner Englishes (such as the International Corpus of Learner English) and of second-language varieties of English (such as the International Corpus of English). It addresses questions such as ‘Are the phenomena we find in ESL and EFL varieties features or errors?’ or ‘How common and wide-spread are features across contact varieties of English?’

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukherjee, Joybrato

Hundt, Marianne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Bridging a paradigm gap
Marianne Hundt and Joybrato Mukherjee

1–6
Modal auxiliaries in second language varieties of English: A learner’s perspective
Carolin Biewer

7–34
English in Cyprus: Second language variety or learner English?
Christiane Bongartz and Sarah Buschfeld

35–54
From EFL to ESL: Evidence from the International Corpus of Learner English
Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylviane Granger

55–78
Formulaic sequences in spoken ENL, ESL and EFL: Focus on British English, Indian English and learner English of advanced German learners
Sandra Götz and Marco Schilk

79–100
Studying structural innovations in New English varieties
Ulrike Gut

101–124
Interrogative inversion as a learner phenomenon in English contact varieties: A case of Angloversals?
Michaela Hilbert

125–144
Overuse of the progressive in ESL and learner Englishes – fact or fiction?
Marianne Hundt and Katrin Vogel

145–166
Typological profiling: Learner Englishes versus indigenized L2 varieties of English
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd Kortmann

167–188
A principled distinction between error and conventionalized innovation in African Englishes
Bertus van Rooy

189–208
Discussion forum: New Englishes and Learner Englishes – quo vadis?
Marianne Hundt and Joybrato Mukherjee

209–218
Bionotes

219–220
Index

221–222