The Sociolinguistics of Digital Englishes

Friedrich, Patricia; Figueiredo, Eduardo H. Diniz de

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“…They work not only as mechanisms for language acquisition but also communication in various domains. An example, inspired by an actual interaction from Friedrich and de Figueiredo (, p. 53), shows this hybridity between English and Japanese in a chatroom: A: Will send you the information. B: Matteru yo. A: I will find it soon. B: I look forward. A: Oyasumi. See you later. …”

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When Englishes go digital

Friedrich

2019

World Englishes

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Digital communications have meant a significant acceleration in rate and a widening in scope of interactions across Englishes (Friedrich & de Figueiredo, 2016). From social media posts to fan‐fiction writing, Englishes have been re‐negotiated, and new norms of interface and collaboration have been forged. Hybrid varieties have emerged, and new norms of politeness and opposition (Barnes, 2015) are constantly developing. For example, fan fiction can work as a channel for rewriting social norms through modification of existing texts (Leavenworth, 2015, p. 40), and each social media outlet has its own norms of accepted practices that give away who is an insider and who is not. Through an unstructured exploratory analysis, this paper discusses a few of the features and loci of these new modes of interaction (as in the delineation of speech community, conversational patterns, linguistic innovation) by visiting some of the media most affected by digital modes (such as social media, fan fiction communities, and texting). I will conclude with directions for further research and suggestions for pedagogical actions that not only prepare learners to deal with this reality but also take advantage of the skills they already intuitively bring into classrooms, virtual and physical.

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When Englishes go digital

Friedrich

2019

World Englishes

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“…http: //dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2018.06.34 Corresponding Author: Nadav Badrian Selection and peer-review under English is the world's Lingua Franca (Graddol, 2006;Friedrich, & Figueiredo, 2016).…”

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“…Since we cannot completely ignore its influence on spoken language throughout the world and the English-speaking world as well, we have to ask ourselves what can be done in order to accommodate ELF within the TESOL practice? One option suggested is that the TESOL field will accept that the modern reality and especially the fluctuating rapidly changing nature of the internet (Friedrich, Figueiredo, 2016) requires of TESOL teachers aside from being aware of the nature of ELF to be also open to accommodate different expressions of language, even those who sidetrack from ENL and to learn to do that as part of their training (Sewell, 2012).…”

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“…Perhaps the answer relates more to the political field than to the linguistic one. From a sociolinguistic perspective, one can assert that languages are formed within a community of practice and in a globalized world in which traditional communities are being replaced with ones that cross cultural, ethnic and lingual barriers by using ELF for communication it is time to redefine the circle model on a proficiency scale rather than a demographical one (figure 2) (Graddol, 2006;Friedrich, &Figueiredo, 2016). Naturally, the emrgance of this 'new' language led to research concerning its characteristics.…”

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“…Furthermore, the theory of accommodation (MacKenzie,2014) claims that when people interact (in any language) their natural tendency will be to imitate the grammatical structures and vocabulary of other participants. It is logical to assume that when a ENL speaker interacts with an ELF speaker which is something that happens frequently in today's world (Friedrich, Figueiredo, 2016), the accommodation will have to take part on the ENL side. Perhaps that is the reason that the same characteristics of ELF shown above manifest themselves within ENL communities, more in the spoken language than in the written one and The interaction between ELF and ENL creates a problem when it comes to the pedagogical question regarding its teaching.…”

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The English language has undergone immense changes throughout the 20 th and the beginning of the 21 st century. For various sociocultural and economic reasons, it has expanded beyond its inner circle of native speakers and has become a Lingua Franca, a means of communication between different people with different native languages. Today, more people speak English as a second or foreign language than those who speak it as their first language. Due to its spread and interaction with different cultures, the English language serving as a Lingua Franca takes on different forms and undergoes various changes. It has also become a language that is taught throughout the world and native English-speaking TESOL teachers can be found in many countries. These teachers are a unique population to be researched in order to understand the sociolinguistic changes that are happening to English. They are native speakers, who live in a foreign country. Their uniqueness lies in the fact that they are language teachers and therefore possess linguistic awareness. This article is a part of an ongoing research project that focuses on the effect of the local culture on the ESOL teacher. The article lays the theoretical basis for one of the research questions regarding the linguistic changes that native speaking ESOL teachers undergo while assimilating in a different culture.

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