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New Englishes, New Methods
There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in this volume critically explore the gamut of familiar and unfamiliar methods applied in data collection and analysis in order to improve upon old methods and develop new methods for the study of English around the world. The authors present novel approaches to the use of the International Corpus of English, critical insights into phonological analyses of New Englishes, applications of linguistic dialectology in territories in which New Englishes are used, improvements on attitudinal research, and an array of mixed-methods approaches. The contributions in this volume also include a range of Englishes, considered not only in situ but also in online and diaspora settings, and thus question received understandings of what counts as New Englishes.
[Varieties of English Around the World, G68] 2023. viii, 276 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 30 March 2023
Published online on 30 March 2023
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
- New Englishes new methods: An introductionGuyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal | pp. 1–14
- Part I. Corpora
- Verbal past inflection in Nigerian English: A case for sociolinguistic compound visionAxel Bohmann and Adesoji Babalola | pp. 16–41
- Functions of code-switching in online registers of Pakistani EnglishMuhammad Shakir | pp. 42–64
- New Englishes and Conversation Analysis: Turn-taking as a factor in explaining syntactic variationTheresa Neumaier | pp. 65–83
- Creole and power: A Critical Discourse Analysis of legal cross‑examinations in ICE Jamaica and ICE Trinidad and TobagoMichael Westphal and Guyanne Wilson | pp. 84–106
- Part II. Phonetics and phonology
- Question intonation patterns in Nigerian EnglishFolajimi Oyebola and Warsa Melles | pp. 108–131
- Analysing the speech rhythm of New Englishes: A guide to researchers and a case study on Pakistani, Philippine, Nigerian, and British EnglishRobert Fuchs | pp. 132–155
- Part III. Language attitudes
- Acceptability Judgement Tasks in New Englishes research: Focus on acrolectal Nigerian EnglishKingsley Oluchi Ugwuanyi | pp. 158–177
- Mixed methods in the mapping of accent perceptions in Indian varieties of EnglishGiuliana Regnoli | pp. 178–200
- Mapping perceptions in New Englishes: A case study from St KittsMirjam Schmalz | pp. 201–220
- Part IV. Ethnography
- Understanding, collecting, and presenting data in New Englishes research: Insights from ethnographic fieldwork in an Old Order Mennonite communityMiriam Neuhausen | pp. 222–242
- Complicating the field: World Englishes and digital ethnographyTheresa Heyd | pp. 243–262
- Conclusion: New Englishes, new methods, new directionsGuyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal | pp. 263–274
- Index | pp. 275–276
“New Englishes, New Methods marks a coming of age of the study of global English varieties. The collection applies an exciting range of state-of-the-art techniques—perceptual dialectology, conversation and discourse analysis, acoustic analysis, ethnography—to global contexts, and showcases the exceptional potential of New Englishes for advancing novel methods in linguistics.”
Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary University of London
“New Englishes, new methods, new people: Early-career scholars define the challenges for research on World Englishes in the 21st century. This is a volume of original contributions that make stimulating
reading.”
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Christian Mair, University of Freiburg
“The volume is highly recommended to anyone suffering from a bout of research fatigue and looking for an inspiring antidote.”
Claudia Lange, TU Dresden, in English World-Wide 45:1 (2024).
“The volume is a very valuable addition to the field that fills a gap in the critical discussion of methods in New Englishes. The individual chapters [...] are all refreshing as they show that methods in New Englishes are clearly not restricted to quantitative corpus-based research on ICE that compares specific features across a variety of New Englishes against the yardstick of British and American English.”
Beke Hansen, University of Kiel, in English Language and Linguistics (2024).
“New Englishes, New Methods is a significant contribution to the field. It successfully highlights the cutting-edge aspects within New Englishes research, presenting the innovative ways scholars are addressing the complexities of these varieties. Furthermore, it is vital that it features some lesser-studied, peripheral – in Mair’s (2013) terms – varieties (e.g. St Kitts English), alongside the emerging contexts for their investigation. The book’s strength lies in its diverse range of methodological approaches, its focus on some under-researched areas, and its commitment to ethical and reflexive research practices. Thanks to the above, it serves as a valuable resource for researchers interested in New Englishes, sociolinguistics, and language variation.”
Monika Konert-Panek, University of Warsaw, in Polish Journal of English Studies 11:1 (2025).