Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes

Bridging a paradigm gap

Editors

Joybrato Mukherjee | Justus Liebig University Giessen

Marianne Hundt | University of Zurich

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The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes and second-language varieties are typically non-native forms of English that emerge in language contact situations, it is high time that they are described and compared on an empirical basis in order to draw conceptual and theoretical conclusions with regard to their form, function and acquisition. The present collection of articles places special emphasis on empirical evidence obtained from large-scale analyses of computerised corpora of learner Englishes (such as the International Corpus of Learner English) and of second-language varieties of English (such as the International Corpus of English). It addresses questions such as ‘Are the phenomena we find in ESL and EFL varieties features or errors?’ or ‘How common and wide-spread are features across contact varieties of English?’

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 44] 2011. vi, 222 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.44

Table of Contents

Introduction: Bridging a paradigm gap

Marianne Hundt and Joybrato Mukherjee | pp. 1–6

Modal auxiliaries in second language varieties of English: A learner’s perspective

Carolin Biewer | pp. 7–34

English in Cyprus: Second language variety or learner English?

Christiane Bongartz and Sarah Buschfeld | pp. 35–54

From EFL to ESL: Evidence from the International Corpus of Learner English

Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylviane Granger | pp. 55–78

Formulaic sequences in spoken ENL, ESL and EFL: Focus on British English, Indian English and learner English of advanced German learners

Sandra Götz and Marco Schilk | pp. 79–100

Studying structural innovations in New English varieties

Ulrike Gut | pp. 101–124

Interrogative inversion as a learner phenomenon in English contact varieties: A case of Angloversals?

Michaela Hilbert | pp. 125–144

Overuse of the progressive in ESL and learner Englishes – fact or fiction?

Marianne Hundt and Katrin Vogel | pp. 145–166

Typological profiling: Learner Englishes versus indigenized L2 varieties of English

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd Kortmann | pp. 167–188

A principled distinction between error and conventionalized innovation in African Englishes

Bertus van Rooy | pp. 189–208

Discussion forum: New Englishes and Learner Englishes – quo vadis?

Marianne Hundt and Joybrato Mukherjee | pp. 209–218

Bionotes | pp. 219–220

Index | pp. 221–222

“This collection clearly pushes the boundaries of SLA studies by drawing on invaluable insights from the growing fi elds of New Englishes and corpus linguistics. It also achieves the purpose of the collection as set out in the introductory chapter—namely, to bridge a “paradigm gap” between traditional SLA studies and research into institutionalized L2 varieties. This volume opens up exciting venues for further interdisciplinary research on SLA and will be a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students interested in learner language, corpus linguistics, and New Englishes.”

Chit Cheung Matthew Sung, Lancaster University, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition 35: 560-562, 2013.

“Joybrato Mukherjee and Marianne Hundt have compiled a much-needed collection that presents at times diverging evidence from two fields that have historically been working in relative isolation.”

Lize Terblanche, University of South Africa, Pretoria, in English World-Wide Vol. 34(3): 365-369, 2013

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