Josef J. Schmied

List of John Benjamins publications in which Josef J. Schmied is involved.

Albrecht, Sven, Marina Ivanova and Josef J. Schmied 2024 Durational variation across inner/outer/expanding circle varieties of English English World-Wide 45:3, pp. 342–366 | Article

The durational variation, often referred to as speech rhythm, of outer and expanding circle varieties has often been described as different from inner circle varieties due to L1 influence. In an attempt to quantify previous subjective accounts, this preliminary study investigates durational… read more

Schmied, Josef J. 2021 Review of Buregeya (2019): Kenyan English English World-Wide 42:3, pp. 350–354 | Review

Schmied, Josef J. 2019 Chapter 3.2. African corpora for standards in African academic English: Case studies on prepositions Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra U., Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia (eds.), pp. 355–372 | Chapter

This contribution proposes to replace the traditional native-speaker model at African universities with a sophisticated and stratified corpus model of nation-, university- and department-specific usage. It illustrates that the long-discussed realistic “national standard” may be possible – at least… read more

van Rooy, Bertus, Lize Terblanche, Christoph Haase and Josef J. Schmied 2010 Register differentiation in East African English: A multidimensional study English World-Wide 31:3, pp. 311–349 | Article

The article examines register variation in East African English by submitting the East African component of the International Corpus of English (ICE) to a complete multidimensional analysis (Biber 1988). A six-factor model was extracted using 67 linguistic features (Biber 1988). The results show… read more

Schmied, Josef J. 1997 Beyond recipes, beyond Maks, beyond Africa. Texts, text-types, text collections and African realities Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 141–158 | Article

Schmied, Josef J. 1996 English in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi Focus on South Africa, de Klerk, Vivian (ed.), pp. 301–321 | Article

Schmied, Josef J. 1994 Communicative Competence and the Role of English as a Second Language Language Problems and Language Planning 18:2, pp. 139–141 | Miscellaneous

Schmied, Josef J. 1990 Language Use, Attitudes, Performance and Sociolinguistic Background: A Study of English in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia English World-Wide 11:2, pp. 217–238 | Article

Schmied, Josef J. 1988 Review of Freeman & Jibril (1987): English Language Studies in Nigerian Higher Education English World-Wide 9:1, pp. 124–127 | Review

Schmied, Josef J. 1985 Attitudes Towards English in Tanzania English World-Wide 6:2, pp. 237–269 | Article

Schmied, Josef J. 1984 Review of Wächtler (1977): Geographie und Stratifikation der englischen Sprache Language Problems and Language Planning 8:3, pp. 362–364 | Review

Schmied, Josef J. 1984 Englisch—Formen und Funktionen einer Weltsprache: Eine Austellung Language Problems and Language Planning 8:1, pp. 76–79 | Miscellaneous

Schmied, Josef J. 1982 Review of Polomé & Hill (1980): Language in Tanzania English World-Wide 3:2, pp. 257–260 | Review