Variation in English Worldwide
World Englishes is one of the most active fields of present day linguistic research. This book provides a comprehensive overview of variation in English across the globe, by analysing a large corpus of texts from the English speaking world. The analysis draws on a larger number of individual texts and linguistic features than previous studies have done. It includes a systematic comparison of the influence of register and national variety on variation in English world-wide, and explores patterns of variation in both qualitative and quantitative terms. The results provide a testing ground for theoretical models, and highlight the importance of register in mediating linguistic differences across national varieties.
- Explores the structure underlying variation in the global use of English
- Develops ten fundamental dimensions of variation in quantitative terms and provides extensive qualitative analysis of each dimension
- Demonstrates how to combine research in multi-dimensional corpus linguistics and the World Englishes framework on a large scale, in novel and highly productive ways
Product details
January 2020Hardback
9781108485456
182 pages
235 × 156 × 18 mm
0.49kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The world of English: variation in geography and register
- 3. Quantifying linguistic variation
- 4. The space of variation in the present study
- 5. General situational dimensions of variation
- 6. Register-specific dimensions
- 7. Dimensions with other patterns of distribution
- 8. Discussion: feature space and geographic space
- 9. Conclusion.