World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies

World Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions, with different interlocutors, and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal responses to the languages vary. Speaker groups are...

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description World Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions, with different interlocutors, and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal responses to the languages vary. Speaker groups are heterogenous manifesting only partial overlap regarding language repertoires, use, proficiencies, and attitudes. The languages in multilingual ecologies may shift in status over time. Some languages may be lost while new languages appear. Strong regional languages and English typically persist. The volume explores multilingual ecologies around the globe and the position of English within them. Case studies are drawn from Africa, East, South, and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, all written by distinguished scholars in the field who consider both standardized and non-standardized forms of English. The volume argues for a more inclusive study of World Englishes incorporating speakers’ social backgrounds as well as the other languages in their repertoires.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1593632025-05-13T08:57:00Z World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies Siemund, Peter Stein, Gardy Vida-Mannl, Manuela Sociolinguistics Language policy Multilingualism English linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics World Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions, with different interlocutors, and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal responses to the languages vary. Speaker groups are heterogenous manifesting only partial overlap regarding language repertoires, use, proficiencies, and attitudes. The languages in multilingual ecologies may shift in status over time. Some languages may be lost while new languages appear. Strong regional languages and English typically persist. The volume explores multilingual ecologies around the globe and the position of English within them. Case studies are drawn from Africa, East, South, and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, all written by distinguished scholars in the field who consider both standardized and non-standardized forms of English. The volume argues for a more inclusive study of World Englishes incorporating speakers’ social backgrounds as well as the other languages in their repertoires. Published 2025-05-13T08:56:57Z 2025-05-13T08:56:57Z 2025-04-24 book 9789027245007 (eb) 9789027219367 (hb) https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159363 eng Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity image/png Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://benjamins.com/catalog/hsld.9 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027245007 John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 10.0175/hsld.9 10.0175/hsld.9 a0ecc02e-9674-41da-98fe-e7842d79279a 1e3d4a12-34ae-40b6-b0a0-312103a18043 9789027245007 (eb) 9789027219367 (hb) John Benjamins Publishing Company 9 xii, 406 pp. Amsterdam Forschungs- und Wissenschaftsstiftung Hamburg Hamburg Research and Science Foundation 10.13039/501100006307 open access
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Language policy
Multilingualism
English linguistics
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World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
title World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
title_full World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
title_fullStr World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
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title_short World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
title_sort world englishes in their local multilingual ecologies
topic Sociolinguistics
Language policy
Multilingualism
English linguistics
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics
topic_facet Sociolinguistics
Language policy
Multilingualism
English linguistics
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics
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