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...

English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) is a sub-field of Academic (EAP), itself applied linguistics. This article considers ERPP from world Englishes perspective, considering the question as to what sort appropriate ERPP: standardised model, preferred at present, or varietal, Englishes, which would take more account fact that majority scholars publishing their work in are no longer An...

This essay investigates the classroom talk and reflections of a Year 5 lesson on reading writing beyond Standard English. Its title refers to ‘Reflecting Realities’, CLPE survey ethnic diversity in UK children’s books. In changing ‘reflecting’ ‘representing’ I seek move concern with sourcing representative texts work them, stimulating this through bringing non-standard English into metalinguist...