Aug 2026· Varieties of English Around the World· 0 citations· 169 references
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This volume presents the first in-depth exploration of Kuwait within the framework of World Englishes. It examines the historical trajectory of English language contact, the contemporary spread of the language, and public attitudes toward its use in the country. Central to the study is the development and analysis of the Kuwaiti English National Corpus, almost 128 million words across both spoken and written texts. The volume also assesses the relevance of Schneider’s (2003, 2007) Dynamic Model and Buschfeld and Kautzsch’s (2017) Extra- and Intra-territorial Forces Model in the Gulf context. Findings reveal the emergence of innovative linguistic forms, particularly in discourse pragmatics, while also highlighting significant interpersonal variation and the multifaceted role of English in identity construction. This work offers valuable insights for scholars examining the status and functions of English in the Gulf and contributes to ongoing efforts to refine the World Englishes paradigm to better represent linguistic realities on the ground.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of Africa's most linguistically diverse states, and its eastern provinces are characterized by dense contact among local languages, Kiswahili, French and English. This article examines how English is being incorporated into that multilingual ecology, the domains in which it...
Kahindo Ngelengele Joackim· Revue Internationale Multidi...· 0 citations
This opening article of the special issue “English worldwide and linguistic justice” starts from the premise that more interdisciplinary work is needed that bridges sociolinguistic research with linguistic justice theories to provide deeper, more nuanced understandings of the position and functions of English around...
Josep Soler, T. Ricento· World Englishes· 0 citations
This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the...
This study examines the adaptation of the saxophone in China and Japan in comparison to the Western tradition. It analyzes the historical circumstances of the instrument's emergence, the institutional forms of its consolidation, pedagogical approaches, production models, and changes in performance criteria. This paper...
This article examines the impact of migration, globalization and digitalization on the use of nominal address terms in the English‐speaking Sri Lankan Tamil (SLT) diaspora community by undertaking a corpus analysis of English fiction authored by diaspora members with SLT heritage. In the 40 years since the outbreak o...
Three decades after Kachru's characterization of English as a source of both “agony and ecstasy,” debates about its global spread remain ambivalent. Despite significant advances in world Englishes scholarship, celebratory and critical stances toward English continue to coexist, sharpened by the political polarization...
Josep Soler· World Englishes· 0 citations
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