The English of current Caribbean newspapers

Deuber, Dagmar; Hänsel, Eva Canan

doi:10.1515/9783110489071-003

Cited by 6 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…; Westphal, 2017). Thirdly, with its conglomerate of larger, intermediate, and (very) small islands, many of which are independent nations, the Caribbean provides opportunities to investigate world Englishes and their norm developmental processes in smaller postcolonial speech communities that may be more susceptible to external linguistic influences (Deuber & Hänsel, 2019), especially given the environment of high‐level intraregional mobility, tourism, and variety contact common to the Caribbean. Previous research suggests, for instance, that the evolution of Caribbean Englishes/Creoles is more complex than the traditional evolutionary path often anticipated in world Englishes models (Hackert, Laube, & Wengler, 2020; Meer & Deuber, 2020; Westphal, 2017, p. 224).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Englishes of the Caribbean

Meer

Schmalz

2022

World Englishes

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The English‐official Caribbean provides an insightful context for investigations of norm developmental processes, world Englishes theorizing, and mapping Englishes in multivarietal communities. While there has been an upsurge of linguistic research on the region, especially on emerging standardized varieties, little systematic empirical research exists on smaller Caribbean islands, select domain‐specific patterns of production and perception in larger territories, and regional issues of standardization. This special issue addresses current research gaps and provides a well‐rounded picture of language production and perception research in the anglophone Caribbean. The issue consists of articles with a variety of different methodological approaches, including corpus‐linguistic, sociolinguistic, acoustic phonetic, ethnographic, and language attitudinal investigations. It covers a wide range of smaller (Bequia, Dominica, Grenada, and St. Kitts) and larger territories (the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, and Trinidad). While the articles scrutinize the anglophone Caribbean, several of the issues raised have relevance for world Englishes research more generally.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Englishes of the Caribbean

Meer

Schmalz

2022

World Englishes

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

The trappings of order

Oenbring

Klumm

2021

EWW

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study builds off of previous research into Caribbean Standard Englishes (which has largely used newspaper genres) by comparing the rates of features found in corpora of Bahamian, Jamaican, British, and American administrative writing, paying particular attention to whether and how the noted formality of Caribbean Standard Englishes manifests itself in administrative writing. The study employs expanded versions of ICE administrative subcorpora for the analysis. Features analyzed include lexis, orthography, as well as different morphosyntactic constructions such as be-passives and modals of obligation and necessity. The study finds that the contemporary British administrative writing corpus contains the most informal lexical choice of the national corpora studied, problematizing a Caribbean folk narrative that associates formality in administrative language and practice with Britishness.

show abstract

Context matters

Hänsel

Westphal

Meer

et al. 2022

JPCL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper presents the results of two largely parallel verbal guise studies that elicited students’ attitudes toward different standard varieties of English. The studies were conducted in the small anglophone Caribbean island country of Grenada. The two studies were contextualized in the domains of education and newscasting, respectively, with the aim of finding out how language attitudes are influenced by context in societies where different endo- and exonormative standards are of relevance. As hypothesized, the results revealed strong differences between the evaluations of speakers of the two domains and confirm that contextualization is crucial in language attitude research. Against previous hypotheses, however, the acceptance of endonormative standard accents was stronger in the more globally open context of newscasting than in the more locally restricted domain of education. The results are discussed against the background of the sociolinguistic situation in Grenada and inform on endonormativity and norm orientation in one of the underresearched island countries of the anglophone Caribbean.

show abstract

The English of current Caribbean newspapers

Cited by 6 publications

References 0 publications

Introduction: Englishes of the Caribbean

Introduction: Englishes of the Caribbean

The trappings of order

Context matters

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About