Abstract Negative attitudes of non-Singaporeans towards Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) are often used to support the “Speak Good Movement” in Singapore. This article examines spontaneous metalinguistic discourse about SCE an online Facebook group where Taiwanese migrants gather for mutual support. Based on idea that is mediated through social relation between interlocutors, this study revea...

To indicate emphasis, auxiliary do is used in affirmative contexts (do+) when no other present. It thus rooted the grammatical system of do-support; however, do+ does not always bear stress and can fulfil various discourse-marking functions (Nevalainen & Rissanen, 1986). Positioned at intersection grammar discourse, constitutes an interesting study for its use ‘non-native’ varieties English sin...

"Research Developments in World Englishes." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2

English is the only language available for global communication and is used by 1.5 billions of speakers. It is also known to have a large diversity of pronunciation due to the influence of speakers’ mother tongue, called accents. Our project aims at creating a global and speaker-basis map of English accents to be used in learning World Englishes as well as research studies of World Englishes [1...

The present study explores attitudes of non-native speakers English studying in a reputable university Melbourne, Australia, towards world Englishes. In particular, the investigates different between students enrolled subject, which indirectly promotes students’ acceptance them and those who have not taken subject uses direct approach, allows informants to give an account their (McKenzie, 2010)...