English in a post‐Brexit European Union

Modiano, Marko

doi:10.1111/weng.12264

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“…More and more words acquire special pronunciation. For example, the word cooperation in British English is pronounced / kəʊˌɒpəˈreɪʃ (ə) n /, and in Euro-English / kɔːpəˈreɪʃən / [19].…”

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The English of Englishes: a Threat or an Opportunity?

Boyarskaya¹,

Шевченко²,

Tomashevskaya³

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on European Multilingualism: Shaping Sustainable Educational and Social Environment

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This research is devoted to the study of the status of Euro-English-a variety of English spoken in European institutions and continental Europe. Its emergence and development occur under the conditions of multilingualism and is associated with the need to have a common language for all European citizens to ensure intercultural and inter-ethnic communication. The authors reflect on the similarities and differences between British English and European English in their status, processes, vocabulary and grammar.

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The English of Englishes: a Threat or an Opportunity?

Boyarskaya¹,

Шевченко²,

Tomashevskaya³

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on European Multilingualism: Shaping Sustainable Educational and Social Environment

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“…Three main factors may contribute to long term effects on the use of native target pronunciation models in European countries such as Sweden or Germany: 1) increased internet usage and availability of media produced in different varieties of English, 2) an increased focus on communication rather than varietyfocused education, and 3) whether the effects of Brexit on (as Modiano [2017a] puts it) the guardianship of Britain on the Englishes in Europe will be stronger than plain geographical proximity, on the issues studied here.…”

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“…It is, in some sense, an organic process in progress which may be taking more time than some would wish, but it is underway. Modiano's (2017a;2017b) argument that the English of Europe is a Euro-English presupposes one shared English across Europe, which simply does not exist. However, Modiano makes certain prediction on the language of Europe 'no longer being under the control of the British' -and looking at the changing context that for example English teachers in Germany and Sweden are adjusting to (changes in curricula, etc.)…”

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Intonation and levels of agreement in interactions between Swedish adolescents

Forsberg¹,

Abelin²

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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Speakers of a language carry with them a set of language ideologies, i.e. beliefs about norms and rules in relation to that language. One such ideology is a standard language ideology, which is generally associated with prescriptive beliefs connected to linguistic standardness and correctness. A speaker's understanding of language ideologies can affect their speech style. The speech style of a given speaker at a given time is further affected by a number of factors surrounding the setting of the speech situation in question, including the topic of conversation, the physical surroundings and the audience (known as audience design). Those audience members who are not present in a given speech situation are known as referees. In this compilation thesis, urban adolescent language in Sweden is studied from a number of angles, with the overarching assumption that speech style is designed with a specific audience in mind, and within the frame of those language ideologies available to the speaker. The data used in the studies included is mostly interactional, taken from a corpus of 111 adolescents in Stockholm and Gothenburg, interacting in interviews with a researcher, and in map-tasks with a self-selected peer. Further data has been collected through online questionnaires, one targeting 80 teachers of English as a foreign language, and one perception experiment asking 180 listeners to consider the pragmatic functions and the language spoken in utterances of the word OK. The first study examines how the map-task can be used as a tool for sociolinguistic data collection, analysing the resulting interactions using audience design, and interviewing participants as to their experiences. The second study considers the language ideologies of teachers through questions concerning their own and their pupils' use of varieties of English, and their views on the same. The third study uses self-assessments of language proficiencies in order to get at adolescents' standard language ideologies, and their use of referees as audience when considering their own proficiencies. The fourth and fifth studies use specific utterances of the word OK from the map-task recordings in order to examine connections between pragmatic and phonetic (segmental and prosodic) information in utterance in-and-out-of-context to language spoken and speaker role. Together, these studies explore ways in which audience design and language ideology interact and are manifested in different aspects of language.

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“…For example, Ireland and Malta are the only two countries where English is the official language. In this case, Ireland chose Irish and Malta chose Maltese, then no country would choose to maintain English as an official language after Brexit [5]. Moreover, the politician and public figures in Europe also argue that the withdrawal United Kingdom from the European Union negatively affects the status of English as a lingua franca in Europe [6,7].…”

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The Future of English after Brexit in European Union

Melvina¹

2019

Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

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Britain decided to leave the European Union based on the results of a referendum on June 23, 2016, which is better known as Brexit (Britain Exit). The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union raises the issue of the English status in the European Union. The issue is to discontinue the use of the English language within the European Union. This may be problematic for several European countries in which English is a more broadly spoken language than French and German and also is the working language in its institutions. This paper discusses the consequences of Britain's exit from the European Union, and whether it will change the position of English as the dominant language of the European Union. To address this issue, a comprehensive literature review was conducted. A number of relevant articles were collected and sorted into some categories: language policy in the European Union, English as a lingua franca, and English before and after Brexit in the European Union. The results show that English will continue to be the European lingua franca, people in Europe will likely choose English as their preferred L2 in purpose to have communication in many aspects, and English will increasingly be promoted as the first foreign language in European schools. It is interesting to note that Brexit will not completely destroy the status of English the EU.

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English in a post‐Brexit European Union

Cited by 45 publications

References 22 publications

The English of Englishes: a Threat or an Opportunity?

The English of Englishes: a Threat or an Opportunity?

Intonation and levels of agreement in interactions between Swedish adolescents

The Future of English after Brexit in European Union

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