Intelligibility in World Englishes

Nelson, Cecil L.

doi:10.4324/9780203832578

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“…Intelligibility indexes the extent to which the interlocutor understands the speaker's message (Munro et al, 2006;Nelson, 2011). If a speaker pronounces a word or an utterance, and the interlocutor does not understand the pronunciation, then the pronunciation is unintelligible to the interlocutor; if a speaker pronounces a word or an utterance, and the interlocutor does understand the pronunciation, then the pronunciation is intelligible to the interlocutor.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Segmental repair and interactional intelligibility: The relationship between consonant deletion, consonant insertion, and pronunciation intelligibility in English as a Lingua Franca in Japan

O’Neal

2015

Journal of Pragmatics

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“…Whole utterances that are oriented to as unintelligible are considered instances in which utterance intelligibility was a problem. Single words that are oriented to as unintelligible are considered instances in which word intelligibility was a problem (Nelson, 2011).…”

Section: Intelligibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Segmental repair and interactional intelligibility: The relationship between consonant deletion, consonant insertion, and pronunciation intelligibility in English as a Lingua Franca in Japan

O’Neal

2015

Journal of Pragmatics

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“…For the objectives of this study, the concept of intelligibility as defined by Nelson (2011) will be used for two reasons. First, intelligibility is situationally and contextually bound (Nelson, 2011). That is, to what extent people will be able to understand the messages is subjected to the contexts.…”

Section: Intelligibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Intelligibility of Thai English Restaurant Menus as Perceived by Thai and Non-Thai Speakers

Duangsaeng

Chanyoo

2017

JLTR

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Abstract-This study was conducted with the aims to measure intelligibility of English menus used in Thai restaurants as perceived by Thai and non-Thai speakers and to explore the most salient unintelligible features found on the menus as identified by native Thai speakers. Ninety-six participants agreed to complete an online survey. They were asked to rate their intelligibility level and identify the sources of confusing features found on Thai English menus. Independent t-test and simple descriptive statistics such as mean score, percentage and standard deviation were utilized for data analysis. The results suggest that there is the distinction between intelligibility of restaurant menus rated by Thai and non-Thai speakers. Translation is likely to be the most frequent rated as a source of unintelligible features. The data presented here leads to the conclusion that Thais seems to be harsher in rating intelligibility level. Further implications have also been discussed in this study. Index Terms-intelligibility, restaurant menus, English as a lingua franca, ELF

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“…For instance, Smith and Nelson (1985;Nelson, 2012;Smith, 2009) have argued for the concept of intelligibility as the goal of communication which can be used as a criterion to determine the status of idiosyncratic forms. Some researchers have verified some of these criteria drawing on corpus data.…”

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confidence: 99%