English in the Netherlands: Functions, forms and attitudes
Alison Edwards
[Varieties of English Around the World, G56] 2016. xv, 271 pp.
Alison Edwards
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alison Edwards plays a role.
Title
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2020 Language policy and the law: How Dutch universities legally justify English-medium instruction Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 9:1/2, pp. 38–59 | Article
Universities in the Netherlands are currently faced with finding a balance between the implementation of English-medium instruction and the protection and promotion of Dutch. In this article I analyse university language policy documents from a discursive and critical perspective. I explore the… read more
2018 “I’m an Anglophile, but …”: A corpus-assisted discourse study of language ideologies in the Netherlands Modeling World Englishes: Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties, Deshors, Sandra C. (ed.), pp. 163–186 | Chapter
This study, at the interface of language ideologies, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, explores perceptions of English in the Netherlands through recurrent discourse patterns in a corpus of language-attitudinal commentary by 724 Dutch informants. The informants position English as a purely… read more
2018 In case of innovation: Academic phraseology in the Three Circles Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 121–146 | Article
This paper addresses the equivalence often drawn between labels such as ESL, New Englishes and Outer Circle on the one hand, and between EFL, Learner Englishes and Expanding Circle on the other. It argues that this mapping takes insufficient account of both intra-varietal variation and… read more
2016 In case of innovation: Academic phraseology in the Three Circles Linguistic Innovations: Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 252–277 | Article
This paper addresses the equivalence often drawn between labels such as ESL, New Englishes and Outer Circle on the one hand, and between EFL, Learner Englishes and Expanding Circle on the other. It argues that this mapping takes insufficient account of both intra-varietal variation and… read more
2015 Outer and expanding circle Englishes: The competing roles of norm orientation and proficiency levels English World-Wide 36:2, pp. 135–169 | Article
The classification of English as a native (ENL), second (ESL) and foreign (EFL) language is traditionally mapped onto Kachru’s (1985) Inner, Outer and Expanding circles, respectively. This paper addresses the divide upheld between these different varietal types. We explore the preposition into… read more