Collocations in Indian English: A Corpus-Based Sample Analysis

Schilk, Marco

doi:10.1515/angl.2006.276

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“…A similar scenario could be observed when India gained independence from the British in 1947 (Schilk 2006).…”

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Attitudes towards Englishes in Sri Lanka

Bernaisch¹

2012

World Englishes

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Although the study and description of the structural levels of Sri Lankan English as a variety of English in its own right have so far been in the centre of a limited number of small-scale investigations only, the sociolinguistic scenery in Sri Lanka has attracted more national and international scholarly attention. In this context, most of the sociolinguistic studies with a special focus on attitudes towards English in Sri Lanka did not differentiate between attitudes towards individual varieties of English, but conducted their investigations under the umbrella term English in Sri Lanka. Against this background, the present study examines attitudes towards Sri Lankan English, Indian English, British English and American English in Sri Lanka with the help of an attitudinal survey based on bipolar semantic differential scales and correlates the results with relevant metainformation. While the findings of the survey indicate that British English continues to be a variety of English which is highly valued in Sri Lanka, the informants also display a positive attitude towards Sri Lankan English; a finding with conceptual implications regarding variety-status of Sri Lankan English and relevance for future language planning activities in Sri Lanka.

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“…A similar scenario could be observed when India gained independence from the British in 1947 (Schilk 2006).…”

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Attitudes towards Englishes in Sri Lanka

Bernaisch¹

2012

World Englishes

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“…in the area of lexicogrammar (e.g. Schilk 2006;Mukherjee and Hoffmann 2006). While there is general consensus on the status of Indian English as a fully-fledged nativised variety in its own right, there is some disagreement on where exactly to plot Indian English in the evolutionary process of variety-formation.…”

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Collostructional nativisation in New Englishes

Mukherjee

Gries

2009

EWW

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The present paper investigates the strength of verb-construction associations across various New Englishes on the basis of comparable corpora. In contrast to previous studies into verb complementation in New Englishes, we start off from three basic constructions in English — the intransitive, the monotransitive and the ditransitive construction — and analyse the co-occurrences of the three constructions and a wide range of verbs. The present study is based on the Hong Kong, the Indian, and the Singapore components of the International Corpus of English (ICE) because the three varieties represent markedly different stages in the process of the evolution of New Englishes with British English as the historical input variety. Our quantitative analysis includes multiple distinctive collexeme analyses for the different varieties. The results show,inter alia, that, firstly, processes of structural nativisation of New Englishes can also be observed at the level of verb-construction associations, which can be subsumed under the notion of “collostructional nativisation”, and that, secondly, there are identifiable intervarietal differences between British English and New Englishes as well as between individual New Englishes. In general, there is a correlation between the evolutionary stage of a New English variety and its collostructional nativisation: The more advanced a New English variety is in the developmental cycle, the more dissimilar its collostructional preferences are to British English.

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“…Thus, even though variety-and register-specific collocations have been the focus of previous studies (Biber et al 1999, Gledhill 2000, Granger 1998, Mair 2007, Ooi 2000, Schilk 2006, Schmied 2004, Skandera 2003, these mostly rely on the comparison of frequencies in corpora, without bringing into play more sophisticated measures of collocational strength. The present study, in contrast, benefits from three statistical measures: normalised frequency, Mutual Information and log-likelihood, making a more focused selection of what are considered to be true collocations here possible.…”

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“I entirely understand” is a Blairism

Mollin

2009

IJCL

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While the study of idiolect is a neglected area in corpus linguistics, the present article suggests that it can be fruitful. As a tool for studying an idiolect, the three-million-word Tony Blair Corpus is introduced. The maximiser collocations occurring in this corpus are compared to those in the BNC in order to identify those which are truly typical of the individual. A quantitative analysis involving three measures of collocational strength (normalised frequency, Mutual Information and log-likelihood) provide candidate collocations which strongly diverge in the two corpora. These are then subjected to tests of synonym preference and register specificity, resulting in a small number of collocations which can count as Blairisms.

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Collocations in Indian English: A Corpus-Based Sample Analysis

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Attitudes towards Englishes in Sri Lanka

Attitudes towards Englishes in Sri Lanka

Collostructional nativisation in New Englishes

“I entirely understand” is a Blairism

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