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- Title
A corpus-based investigation of world Englishes in literature.
- Authors
PERCILLIER, MICHAEL; PAULIN, CATHERINE
- Abstract
ABSTRACT Given the spread of English as a world language and the subsequent development of numerous varieties during the colonial and postcolonial periods, the emergence of local literatures using local varieties of English was only a matter of time. The sheer diversity of new Englishes, literary traditions and motivations to use the localised features in writing results in a wide range of strategies at the disposal of writers who choose to incorporate such features in their work. By compiling a corpus of selected literary works, an analysis of various distinctive features is performed, which makes it possible to address the following questions: Which localised features of English are represented in our corpus? What is the motivation to use a particular set of localised features? Is the representation of such linguistic variation in writing a symbolic or mimetic enterprise?
- Subjects
VOCABULARY; HISTORY of the English language; POSTCOLONIAL analysis; HISTORY of linguistics; MIMETIC words; HISTORY
- Publication
World Englishes, 2017, Vol 36, Issue 1, p127
- ISSN
0883-2919
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/weng.12208