WiSe 2016-17 National and Transnational Aspects of English worldwide

Key Terms
You should know, understand, be able to define these key terms, use them in an analysis and
describe/give an example for these terms. Most key terms are introduced, discussed and defined
in Schneider (2011). See also the glossaries of linguistic terms of Schneider (2011) and Mair
(2008) for help.

2nd session: Models I

 Lingua franca, nativization/indigenization
 Variety, dialect, register, accent, standard
 Language (vs. dialect)
 Levels of language variation, features
 Lexical variation
 Syntax
 Morphology, word formation, inflection
 Pragmatics
 Language change, language contact, borrowing, transfer
 Bilingualism, multilingualism
 World Englishes, New Englishes, Postcolonial Englishes
 ENL/ESL/EFL
 Kachru’s model
 Variable, variant
 Categorical, dichotomous, continuous variables
 American vs. British English examples: lexicon, spelling, grammar

3rd session: Models II

 Schneider’s Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes
 Phases: Foundation, Exonormative Stabilization, Nativization, Endonormative
Stabilization, Differentiation
 Two exemplary cases
 Broad differences between Australia, Nigeria, Jamaica, Singapore

4th session: Australia I

 Differences between (Standard) American and British English accents
 Received Pronunciation and Standard American English
  Features of Australian English accent
 Phonetics and phonology, phones, phoneme, IPA, transcriptions
 Koinéization
 Lexical sets
 Rhoticity and /t/-flapping

5th session Australia II

 Performance, stylization, audience design, referee design, indexicality, enregisterment

6th and 7th session: Caribbean

 Creole, Pidgin
 Historical/linguistic parameters of creolization in the Caribbean
 Creole continuum: acrolect, mesolect, basilect
 Jamaican sociolinguistics
 Syntactic features of Jamaican Creole
 Diglossia
 Sociolinguistics of education in Jamaica
 Sociolinguistic developments in 20th century Jamaica
 Language planning
 Consonant cluster reduction, TH-stopping

9th session: Corpus linguistics

 Corpus
 Corpus linguistics
 Spelling differences between British and American English

10th and 11th session: Language attitudes and ideologies

 Language ideologies (e.g. standard language ideology) and language attitudes
 Bayard et al. (2001): Cultural cringe and linguistic deference, Pax Americana
 Major approaches and methods in language attitude research

12th session: Language and national identity in Sub-Saharan African countries

 Defacto, dejure
  Official language and national language
 Importance and challenges of language planning in Sub-Saharan African countries
 Language planning and national identity in Cameroon/Kenya/Tanzania/South Africa (you
should be able to discuss how one country deals in general with challenges of language
planning in an ethno-linguistically diverse newly independent country)

13th session: Singapore

 Singaporean sociolinguistic situation
 Speak Good English Movement
 Discourse particle
 The Singlish debate