Global English
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- Created on: 02-05-18 11:24
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- Global English
- Pidgins and Creoles
- Creole
- Fully developed lanaguage
- Complete grammar
- Developed by children of pidgin speakers
- Jamaican Creole
- English-based language with West African influences
- Mi run=I run Im run=he run
- Singlish
- Unique slang and syntax
- 1965- Singapore become independent but decided that English would be the common language for all groups
- Ethnic groups infused English with different vocab and grammar, forming Singlish
- Catch no ball=don't understand
- Lah = pragmatic marker
- Pidgins
- Arises when speakers of two different languages meet
- Simplified grammatical structure
- Never a native langauge
- Can be called 'patois'
- Ghanaian English
- Oh= emphasis
- I'm learning for my paper=I'm studying for my exams
- Ghana has at least 40 other languages
- English is unifying
- Creole
- ELF
- English as a 'Lingua Franca'
- Used as a bridging language in interactions where it is not everyone's first langauge
- Singlish
- Unique slang and syntax
- 1965- Singapore become independent but decided that English would be the common language for all groups
- Ethnic groups infused English with different vocab and grammar, forming Singlish
- Catch no ball=don't understand
- Lah = pragmatic marker
- Nicholas Ostler- "The current status of English is unprecedent'd ... with no challenger comparable to it, it seems almost untouchable"
- 34% of countries have English as primary official language, with a further 27 using it as a secondary official langauge
- More than 1.5 billion English speakers worldwide- 350-400 million native speakers
- Dispersal of English
- First dispersal- migration of English to USA, Canada, Australia etc.
- Second dispersal- smaller groups settling in areas such as S. Africa, S. Asia where many people have adopted English as a second language
- David Crystal- "At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects"
- Kachru's model
- Original
- Inner, outer, expanding circles
- Norm-providing, norm-developing, norm dependent
- Criticised as elitist
- Modified
- Circles overlap
- Alternative view
- McArthur- English is fragmenting into a 'family of langauges'- different but interrelated parts
- Original
- Graddol- "Native speakers may feel the language belongs to them, but it will be those who speak English as a second or foreign language who will determine its world future"
- Saraceni- when people ‘de-Anglicise’ English, they are cutting the psychological umbilical cord- cutting ties with UK and doing what they want with the language
- Pidgins and Creoles
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