World Englishes and Creole Languages Today
Vol. I: The Schneiderian Thinking and Beyond
Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann (eds.)
University of Yaounde I, University of Potsdam, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt | Hunan Normal University
This book demonstrates, in the context of the Schneiderian thinking and beyond, that world Englishes and creole languages today display interesting sociolinguistic, typological and pedagogic trends and tendencies. These trends and tendencies have been investigated and reported by Thomas Brunner, Thomas Hoffmann, Sarah Buschfeld, Wiebke Ahlers, Aloysius Ngefac, Arthur K. Spears, Kingsley Oluchi Ogwuanyi, Anthony Grant, Mie Hiramoto, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, Lim Jun Jie, Jessica X. M. Choo, Clifton D. Armstrong, Aya Inoue, David B Frank, Lisa Young, John R Rickford, Paula Prescod, and Christian Go Go. The book is unique and differs from previous works in many ways. First and foremost, it is one of the rare works that overtly bring world Englishes and creole languages together in the same volume, providing an opportunity for current trends to be investigated in the context of the groundbreaking work Edgar Schneider has already carried out in these two subfields of linguistics. Second, some paradigms in world Englishes and creole languages have been tested in different parts of the world with reference to current data and the results are reported in this book. Third, the book serves as a forum for reflections beyond the Schneiderian thinking.
Table of Contents:
Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann
Editors’ preface
Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann
Laudatio for Edgar W. Schneider
Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann
World Englishes and creole languages today: Introduction
Part One: World Englishes and the Schneiderian Diachronic and Synchronic Thinking
Thomas Brunner & Thomas Hoffmann
Construction Grammar meets the Dynamic Model
Sarah Buschfeld & Wiebke Ahlers
English around the World: New realities, new models, and the case of Sint Maarten
Aloysius Ngefac
Investigating the current developmental status of Cameroon English in the context of Edgar Schneider’s Dynamic Model
Arthur K. Spears
Revisiting African American English history: The significance of African American auxiliaries
Kingsley Oluchi Ugwuanyi
The development of English in Nigeria: From alien to own language
Mie Hiramoto, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, Lim Jun Jie & Jessica
X. M.
From Malay to Colloquial Singapore English: A case study of sentence-final particle sia
Part Two: Creole Languages and the Schneiderian Thinking
Anthony Grant
The cline(s) of language contact:
Parallel processes and types of innovation in non-creole languages
Clifton D. Armstrong
Overt vs. covert: Explaining why superstrates yield lexicons and substrates yield grammars
Aya Inoue
The use of fo complementation in current Hawai‘i Creole
David B Frank
Time reference in Gullah and English compared
Part Three: Beyond the Schneiderian Thinking
Lisa Young & John R. Rickford
Sociolinguistic lessons in A Lesson Before Dying
Paula Prescod
Inter-variety proximity, orthography choice and implications
for mutual intelligibility between English-based creoles
Christian Go Go
Language policing and non-standard Philippine English in Facebook meme pages
ISBN 9783969390917 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in English Linguistics 24. 246pp. 2022.
