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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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Address Terms of Brotherhood in the Indian Online Gaming Community
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Indian gamers are part of the Indian society as well as a globalised gaming community. To navigate this cultural dissonance, they can use address terms to reflect and create their double or divided identities. This article investigates forms and functions of kinship terms that are connected to the concept of brother ‘male sibling’, for example,
Linnea Garlepow
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Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This special issue explores variations in English address terms across world Englishes, highlighting how globalization and digital communication continue to shape their use. While Western Englishes like British and American English show a decline in hierarchy‐stressing terms (e.g.
Anke Lensch +2 more
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Linguistic Justice in World Englishes: A View From Cultural Appropriation
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article highlights the need to better clarify what we understand by linguistic justice. Failure to do so poses the danger that the concept not only remains something we may clamour for but is also one that we are unable or unwilling to recognize should we ever encounter it.
Lionel Wee
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, 2012 Studies within linguistics have proven that language expresses identity. However, the act of lexical borrowing from indigenous languages and non-English expressions by Nigerian novelists as resources for the construction of identity in the 21st century ...
Aboh, R
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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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Lexical Borrowing in Spoken Lukabaras in a Multilingual Context
, 2019 This paper investigated the borrowing of lexical items into spoken Lukabaras due to the influence of Nandi language in a multilingual setting. The data was collected in Chepsaita Scheme in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya.
Alati, ,. (, Reginald Atichi ) +5 more
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What the ELLE is going on? Pronoun borrowing in Norman and Louisiana Creole [PDF]
This study investigates the influence of lexical and structural similarity on ‘hard to borrow’ features. It examines the use of the French 3SG feminine pronoun ELLE in Norman and in Louisiana Creole using the framework of MAT- and PAT-borrowing (Matras ...
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Kinship Terms and Person Address in the English‐Speaking Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT 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 of the Sri Lankan civil war,
Anke Lensch
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Networks of lexical borrowing and lateral gene transfer in language and genome evolution. [PDF]
Bioessays, 2014 List JM +3 more
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