In:Saipanese English: Local and global sociolinguistic trends
Dominique B. Hess
[Varieties of English Around the World G69] 2023
► pp. vii–x
Published online: 13 July 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g69.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g69.toc
Table of contents
List of figures
List of tables
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.Introduction
Chapter 2.Describing Saipanese English: The theoretical framework
2.1Lesser-known varieties of English
2.2Existing models for the categorization of World Englishes
2.3Language variation and change
2.3.1The variationist approach
2.3.2(Socio)linguistic change
Chapter 3.English in Saipan: Historical, cultural, and sociolinguistic development
3.1The pre-Anglophone historical period
3.1.1The ancient Chamorros and first Western contacts
3.1.2The Spanish period
3.1.3The German period
3.1.4The Japanese period
3.2The Anglophone historical period
3.2.1US Navy military government
3.2.2The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
3.2.3The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
3.3Current demography
3.4Indigenous languages
3.4.1The Chamorro language
3.4.2The Saipanese Carolinian language
3.5Culture
3.5.1Chamorros
3.5.2Saipan Carolinians
3.6The education system
3.7The media
3.8Languages in the Marianas
3.9Language attitudes
Chapter 4.Fieldwork and data from Saipan
4.1Introduction
4.2The speech community
4.2.1Planned sample population
4.2.2Actual sample population
4.3Preparatory steps
4.3.1Pre-fieldwork: Social media
4.3.2Selecting informants
4.3.3Exploratory activities and access to informants
4.4Sociolinguistic interviews
4.4.1Equipment
4.4.2Procedure of conducting an interview
4.4.3Extra-linguistic factors
4.4.4Topics of conversation and the observer’s paradox
4.4.5Data management
4.4.6Additional data
4.5Ethics
4.5.1Ethical approach
4.5.2Linguistic gratuity
4.6Data processing
4.6.1The corpus
4.6.2Transcription
Chapter 5.A qualitative description of Saipanese English
5.1Lexis
5.2Morphology and syntax
5.2.1Pronouns, pronoun exchange, nominal gender
5.2.2The noun phrase
5.2.3Adjectives
5.2.4The verb phrase
5.2.5Word class change
5.2.6Negation
5.2.7Agreement
5.2.8Relativization and complementation
5.2.9Adverbs and prepositions
5.2.10Discourse organization and word order
5.3Phonetics and phonology
5.3.1Vowels
5.3.2Consonants
5.3.3Prosody
5.4Summary
Chapter 6.The Saipanese English future temporal reference system
6.1Historical overview of the variable and previous research
6.2Data
6.3Extra-linguistic factors
6.4Constraints on the variable context: Future temporal reference
6.4.1Exclusions
6.4.2Other comments on inclusion/exclusion
6.5Intra-linguistic factors: Future temporal reference
6.5.1Sentence type
6.5.2Clause type
6.5.3Proximity
6.5.4Type of subject
6.5.5Lexical aspect
6.5.6Transitivity
6.5.7Temporal adverbials
6.5.8Quote
6.5.9Sentence length
6.5.10Summary of intra-linguistic factors: Future temporal reference
6.6Results: Future temporal reference
6.6.1Distributional results
6.6.2Multinomial results
6.7Discussion of the future temporal reference system
in Saipanese English
Chapter 7.The Saipanese English quotative system
7.1Historical overview of the variable and previous research
7.2Data and extra-linguistic factors
7.3Constraints on the variable context: Quotatives
7.4Intra-linguistic factors: Quotatives
7.4.1Content of the quote
7.4.2Type of subject
7.4.3Tense and temporal reference
7.4.4Mimesis
7.4.5Addressee
7.4.6Summary of intra-linguistic factors: Quotatives
7.5Results: Quotatives
7.5.1Distributional results
7.5.2Multinomial results
7.6Discussion of the quotative system in Saipanese English
Chapter 8.Summary and conclusion
8.1The description of Saipanese English
8.2Main findings and their implications
8.3Placing Saipanese English on the map of World Englishes research
8.4The future of Saipanese English
References
Appendix
Appendix A.Participant information sheet
Appendix B.Transcription conventions
Appendix C.Comparison of rates of be like
Index
