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World Englishes

Week 2 Discussion

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OBJECTIVES

  • Recall the Englishes formed in the four diasporas
  • Examine Kachru's model of World Englishes
  • Survey the varieties of English described by the class
  • Study the features and roles of South Asian and Southeast Asian Englishes

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Development of Englishes

1st

  • The initial "widespread scattering/strewing/sowing" of the language farther and farther across the earth
  • Scots
  • Scottish Standard English

2nd

  • Colonial Expansion of English
  • North America
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Carribean area

3rd

  • English was carried by relatively tiny minorities of English users into nations and continents populated by speakers of many other tongues.
  • South Asia
  • Southeast Asia
  • Africa

4th

  • People all over the world have found it (English) to be increasingly a language of access to desired changes in their personal lives and their societies.
  • South America
  • Europe
  • Russia
  • East Asia
  • China

Braj Kachru's

Three Circles Model

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Your varieties of Englishes

SOCIAL MEDIA ENGLISH

(Kit and Urica)

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CHINA ENGLISH

(Rica)

INTERNET ENGLISH

(Ciaree)

ASIAN CULINARY ENGLISH

(Peter)

ENGLISH (Wisdom of Living)

(Ma'am Rosalie)

Features and roles of English in a variety of different geographical regions

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Question time

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