Indigenization of English in many Asian ESL countries and partial learning of English in EFL countries are two major hindrances to Asian Englishes today. Although Englishes are growing day by day, we have not had any common ground on which we can compare our English with other English varieties. The authors of this article were organizing members of the Committee of Revising the JACET List of B...

This paper presents a variational pragmatic analysis of multilingual question tags in Nigerian English, combining corpus-pragmatic the component International Corpus English with survey study on preferences and attitudes students toward different tag forms. The corpus highlights variation terms form function variant as well non-English (i.e., derived from indigenous languages) invariant six tex...

Abstract In the 17 th century, English region of East Anglia contained many major population centres British Isles, not least Norwich, England’s second city at that time. One might therefore predict Anglian dialects would have played a role in determining nature new colonial Englishes which were first beginning to emerge during this period. This paper considers some phonological and grammatical...

This is an informative book about the development of colonial English varieties that the author also identifies as ‘‘Southern Hemisphere Englishes’’ (SHEs), spoken in New Zealand, his primary focus, in Australia, which is also very much discussed, in South Africa, and in the Falkland Islands. According to T, they all developed much later than Caribbean and North American Englishes, the other co...

In various iterations of studies Global Englishes, much has been written about native-speakerism. However, Kumaravadivelu asks why the intellectual output not substantially altered power dynamics between ‘native’ and ‘non-native’ speakers. This article conducts a critical historiography native-speakerism shows how it is fundamentally implicated in mobilization race racial inequality operational...