The global spread of English has had widespread linguistic, social, and cultural implications, affecting the lives of millions of people around the world. This textbook provides a lively and …
The legacy of British (and American) imperialism and the surge in globalisation over the last century have seen the spread of English around the world. From the mid-1970s World …
EW Schneider - World Englishes, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing expansion and diversification of English, especially in the Expanding Circle, calls for a comparative analysis of these processes and a deepened theoretical …
English as a global lingua franca interacts with other languages across a wide range of multilingual contexts. Combining insights from linguistics, education studies, and …
Abstract The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has witnessed an unprecedented economic and cultural development since its foundation in 1971. Foreign labor and investment play a …
Colonization, the European expansion, and, more specifically, British imperialism building a global empire was the decisive triggering factor which has caused World Englishes (WE) to …
K Bolton, C Jenks - World Englishes, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article sets out to review English for specific purposes (ESP) as a discipline and its conceptual and scholarly connections with the world Englishes (WE) approach English …
SC Deshors, ST Gries - International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2016 - jbe-platform.com
In this paper, we explore verb complementation patterns with to and ing in native English (British and American English) as compared to three Asian Englishes (Hong Kong, Indian …
J Kirk, G Nelson - World Englishes, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This article begins by introducing the International Corpus of English project and proceeds to summarize the findings and outcomes of an extensive review by written questionnaire …