By Yvonne Dröschel Shaham
ISBN-10: 3034304323
ISBN-13: 9783034304320
Questions of ways to entry and learn using English as an international language are primary to the research of the continued unfold of English as a motor vehicle of cross-cultural conversation. the current publication explores the connection among the capabilities and types of English as a Lingua Franca, and introduces the concept that of Lingua Franca English to house the systematic transformations among nationwide local forms of English and the non-native kinds that have built really lately. The research of the sociolinguistic and linguistic strategies focused on the improvement of Lingua Franca English specializes in Switzerland, and is performed by way of an in depth comparative linguistic research of a giant quantity of information received from written and spoken English produced by means of Swiss audio system. the result's a close and demanding description of present concerns affecting the examine of English as a world language, and a radical research of the continued methods as a result of the interplay of Swiss individuals with diverse language backgrounds in shaping the character of the English spoken in Switzerland. through studying the features of English because it is utilized in Switzerland, mild is shed at the diachronic challenge of the focusing mechanisms fascinated with the expansion of non-native types of English and techniques of moment language acquisition mostly.
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E. a range of registers used by specialised subgroups such as bankers, lawyers etc. This position is supported by Widdowson (1997: 144), who argues that English as an International Language is English for Specific Purposes: “otherwise it would not have spread, otherwise it would not regulate itself as an effective means of global communication. And otherwise there would, for most people, be little point in learning it at school or university”. He considers the fact that there are communities in which English has come to be used as a primary medium of communication irrelevant, since, as he argues, here it will develop under its own momentum and will be learned anyway as a local variety which has no global currency.
In short, both native varieties and non-native varieties can have native speakers. Kachru (1985) believes that the terminology remains vague only as long as it is not applied to a specific context: 46 Whatever vagueness one at first associates with the term second-language varieties of English as opposed to foreign-language varieties slowly diminishes when one assesses the international uses of English in geographical, historical, attitudinal, linguistic, and sociolinguistic contexts. The term second-language varieties acquires more meaning once the world varieties of English are further seen in terms of their functional distribution and localized formal characteristics.
Quirk disregards the fact that an increasing proportion of interactions in English involves no native speakers at all (Knapp/Meierkord 2002: 22) but also the importance of English in conveying local traditions and cultural values in the Outer Circle (Kachru 1991: 10). Kachru had already argued earlier for the recognition of ESL varieties as language varieties in their own right and coined the term ‘institutionalised non-native varieties of English’ (Kachru 1982: 45) which has later come to be used in a slightly modified form as ‘Non-native Institutionalised Varieties of English’ (NIVEs) by linguists such as Williams (1987) and De Klerk (2003).
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