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1. Introduction 1. Introduction
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2. The corpus-based documentation of the New Englishes: historical survey 2. The corpus-based documentation of the New Englishes: historical survey
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3. The corpus-based documentation of the New Englishes: potential ways forward 3. The corpus-based documentation of the New Englishes: potential ways forward
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4. The New Englishes on the Web: mobility, deterritorialisation, super-diversity 4. The New Englishes on the Web: mobility, deterritorialisation, super-diversity
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5. Using vernacular resources to create digital spaces: the corpus-based ethnography of diasporic Web forums 5. Using vernacular resources to create digital spaces: the corpus-based ethnography of diasporic Web forums
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6. The corpus-linguistic “take” on World Englishes 6. The corpus-linguistic “take” on World Englishes
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7. Conclusion and outlook 7. Conclusion and outlook
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Notes Notes
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References References
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6 World Englishes and Corpora
Get accessChristian Mair holds a chair in English linguistics at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He has been involved in the compilation of several linguistic corpora (among them F-LOB and Frown, updates of the classic LOB and Brown corpora, and the Jamaican component of the International Corpus of English). His research over the past two decades has focused on the corpus-based description of modern English grammar and variation and change in standard Englishes worldwide. His most recent books are Twentieth-Century English: History, Variation, and Standardization (2006) and Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study (with G. Leech, M. Hundt, and N. Smith, 2009). [email protected]
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Published:16 December 2013
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Abstract
The first part of the chapter surveys the traditional corpus-linguistic working environment for the study of varieties of English around the world, focussing on the International Corpus of English (ICE) as a major cooperative venture. The second part assesses the potential of larger digital text archives and the World-Wide Web as additional sources of data for the study of World Englishes. Corpora and digital text databases not only serve as rich and convenient sources of data, but also encourage a specific corpus-linguistic “take” on World Englishes and are thus also important for advancing the theoretical debate in the field. Analysis of traditional corpora has deepened our understanding of the nature of morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes as a whole and of fine-grained variety-internal variablility determined by medium (spoken vs. written), genre and style, whereas the use of Web data frequently highlights the role of standard and nonstandard Englishes in transnational and global domains. The chapter ends with a plea to develop corpora documenting World Englishes in their multilingual settings and thus bring together research on World Englishes and the related field of the sociolinguistics of globalisation.
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