1 Editorializing as a discursive practice has received some attention in the linguistic literature. One study that looked at newspaper editorials was Reynolds (1993), which investigated the speech acts performed in three languages, namely, American English, Egyptian Arabic, and Egyptian English. Using Searle’s (1979) Speech Act Theory, the study found pragmatic features unique to each language ...

In this paper, we study how to automatically tell different varieties of English apart on Twitter by taking samples from American (US), British (GB) and Australian (AU) English. We track cities and apply filters to generate ground-truth data. We perform expert evaluation to get a sense of the difficulty of the task. We then cast the problem as a classification task: given a tweet (or a set of t...

Given the fact that one of important topics in modern sociolinguistics today is globalisation English (Mesthrie & Bhatt, 2008), aim present paper twofold. First, it seeks to discuss extent which spread around world has resulted emergence new linguistic varieties or World Englishes (Mourchid, 2019) and how “no longer single base authority, prestige normativity” 2008, p. 3). Second, also prov...

Introduction. This study adopts a Global Englishes perspective to examine dimensions within beliefs about English language held by Mainland Chinese university students. It also assesses whether and how these impact the students’ motivation learn (L2 motivation). Materials Methods. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 460 students learning as Foreign Language at large public in China. The ...

This study aimed at investigating the representation of World Englishes (WE) in English textbooks used elementary schools Indonesia. Two books for a sixth-graders were as data sources. qualitative approach and document analysis method to gather data. The collected then analyzed based on Braj Kachru's theory comprising inner, outer, expanding circles. eventually validated by experts field applie...

Hong Kong English (HKE) has been the subject of a growing body of research over the last few decades. This article presents an overview of research into HKE from both linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. The first section reviews the linguistic features of HKE at phonological, grammatical and lexical levels as documented in the literature. In the second section of the article, the devel...