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Local Tests of English in Global Contexts: A Malaysian Case Study
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global tests of English are usually used globally and local tests locally. However, this global–local dichotomy has been challenged by test localisation, globalisation and glocalisation. An emerging critical question in this regard is whether local tests of English can be used locally and globally at the same time.
M. Obaidul Hamid, Mohd Faiz Mohd Yaakob
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Public attitudes towards dialects: Evidence from 31 Chinese provinces. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Li T, Ke X, Li J.
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Must Can: Double‐Modal Constructions in Hong Kong English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous studies have focused on double‐modal constructions (DMs) in Englishes in the Inner Circle at the expense of the Outer Circle. Using data collected from internet forums and corpora, this study aims to narrow the research gap by examining DMs in Hong Kong English (HKE), an English variety in the Outer Circle.
Pun Ho Lui
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Recent Diachronic Change in Affiliative Vocatives in British English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates recent diachronic change in affiliative address in spoken British English by comparing data from the demographic components of the BNC1994 and BNC2014. Using a systematically coded dataset of over 6000 vocative tokens, we analyze forms that signal solidarity and social closeness (including dude, bro, girl, dear, love ...
Mariam Gagua +4 more
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User Perceptions of Endearment Love and Regional Identity in Northern England
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the contemporary pragmatic scope of the endearment love and its indexical links with British regional identities as perceived by English language users in the United Kingdom. Popular metapragmatic stereotypes often associate the term with specific ‘northern’ English, working‐class and White socio‐ethnic identities ...
Nicole Baumgarten
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Morphologically tagged lexical dataset of Khorezm Dialect and Standard Uzbek Pairs. [PDF]
Data BriefSharipov M +3 more
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The Use and Functions of English in Egyptian Social Media
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the contemporary functions of English in Egypt through two interrelated lines of inquiry. First, it provides an updated account of the status and roles of English in the country, revisiting and extending Schaub's assessment in light of significant historical, socio‐economic and linguistic developments over the past two ...
Lucia La Causa
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The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
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Kothon: A large-scale dataset for machine translation of the Chittagonian and Sylheti dialects into standard Bangla. [PDF]
Data BriefFaisal MA +4 more
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The Indian English Complaint Tradition: ‘Old Chestnuts’ and New Perspectives
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT English usage in India has been the target of a linguistic complaint tradition ‘which has taken the form of complaint about so‐called mis‐use of language and linguistic decline’ since the 19th century. The Indian English (IndE) complaint tradition in the 21st century has shifted from colonial to postcolonial in that IndE usage is now targeted ...
Claudia Lange, Sven Leuckert
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