LING 2P72 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nonverbal Communication, Speak Easily, Socalled
15 Jan 2016
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Umbrella label : world englishes covers all varieties and different approaches of. World englishes is used in a narrow sense to refer to new englishes in africa, asia, and the carribbean. World englishes represent plurcentric approach of kachru we will be focusing on this mostly in our discussion of world englishes". Two diasporas : migrations of a large number of english speakers, transportation of the language by a small number of english speakers. First: involved migrations of substantial numbers of english speakers from. English is most widely taught, read, and spoken language of the world. The global spread of english has been viewed as 2 diasporas the present british isles to australia, new zealand and north america. Second: is in colonial contexts of asia and africa, entailed transportation of the language but only to a small extent transportation of english-speaking people. Thus the language was brought into new sociocultural contexts by a very small number of users.
