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Corpus-based Research on World EnglishesTuesday 3 March 2020
Hosted by UNSW School of Humanities & Languages (Linguistics, Interpreting & Translation Program)
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This seminar surveys research on World Englishes using purpose-built corpora, including the International Corpus of English (ICE) and the Global Web-based Corpus of English (GloWbE). Amongst the most commonly invoked models of World Englishes are Kachru’s (1992) ‘concentric circles’ model, and Schneider’s (2007) dynamic model of Postcolonial Englishes, which makes powerful predictions about the process by which ‘New Englishes’ pass through a uniform series of stages from the time of their foundation via structural nativisation and identity-formation to fully-fledged English varieties stabilised with their own norms. I will present the findings of a number of grammatical and lexical corpus-based studies – both synchronic and diachronic – on a range of World Englishes, and explore the implications of the findings with respect to the Kachru and Schneider models.
Tuesday 3 March 2020 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Colombo Theatre C (please note change of venue) Kensington Campus, UNSW KENSINGTON NSW 2033 Building B16 on Map: http://fmtoolbox.unsw.edu.au/comms/KensingtonCampus.pdf
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