New Englishes, New Methods
Edited by Guyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal
[Varieties of English Around the World, G68] 2023. viii, 276 pp.
Michael Westphal
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Westphal plays a role.
Titles
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Language Variation on Jamaican Radio
Michael Westphal
[Varieties of English Around the World, G60] 2017. xvi, 257 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2023 The use and perception of question tags in Trinidadian English Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study presents an analysis of the use and perception of variant question tags and the seven invariant forms eh, ent, nah, OK, not so, right, and you know in Trinidadian English. The analysis of use is based on four dialogue text types from the Trinidad and Tobago component of the… read more
2023 Creole and power: A Critical Discourse Analysis of legal cross‑examinations in ICE Jamaica and ICE Trinidad and Tobago New Englishes, New Methods, Wilson, Guyanne and Michael Westphal (eds.), pp. 84–106 | Chapter
The paper presents a Critical Discourse Analysis of Jamaican and Trinidadian legal-cross examinations, using data from the International Corpus of English. Although English is the dominant language of the courtroom, the analysis shows that Creole is used by both attorneys and witnesses. In… read more
2023 New Englishes new methods: An introduction New Englishes, New Methods, Wilson, Guyanne and Michael Westphal (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
2023 Conclusion: New Englishes, new methods, new directions New Englishes, New Methods, Wilson, Guyanne and Michael Westphal (eds.), pp. 263–274 | Chapter
2022 Context matters: Grenadian students’ attitudes toward newscasters’ and teachers’ accents Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37:1, pp. 16–52 | Article
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… read more
2022 Phonetic variation in Standard English spoken by Trinidadian professionals Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37:2, pp. 357–394 | Article
This paper analyzes the speech of 27 Trinidadian professionals (lawyers, lecturers, and politicians), who are typical speakers of Standard Trinidadian English in formal contexts, where traditionally Standard English is targeted. We investigate phonetic variation in Trinidadian English speech… read more
2021 Attitudinal research into Caribbean Englishes: New Englishes, new methods English World-Wide 42:2, pp. 175–199 | Article
Language attitude research is crucial for a deeper understanding of New Englishes. However, the most common attitude research methods often cause problems when applied to New Englishes contexts. We discuss the benefits and challenges of different methods used in two attitude studies on the… read more
2019 Trinidadian secondary school students’ attitudes toward accents of Standard English Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34:1, pp. 83–125 | Article
In the anglophone Caribbean, tendencies of endonormative reorientation have been observed in the development of local standards of English. Situated in the school context, this study adds a language attitude perspective on the question of whether and to what extent an endonormative standard of… read more
2014 Review of Lacoste (2012): Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools English World-Wide 35:3, pp. 358–362 | Review