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World Englishes - Coggle Diagram
World Englishes
Schneider (2007)
Created a dynamic model of post colonial Englishes, and how they develop in the following processes
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Differentiation: the new variety begins to develop internal, regional and social differences
Canadian English
Description
Standard stereotype is that they are like American English, however they see themselves as more British English
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Why is it important
English has shaped their culture, economy and institutions
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Along with French, is the official language of Canada
Phonetic differences
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Tend to pronounce vowel sounds with a more rounded mouth shape, out turns into "oot"
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Singaporean English
What is it?
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Arose out of a situation of prolonged language contact between speakers of many different asian languages in Singapore, such as Malay, Cantonese, Mandarin and Tamil
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Phonetic differences
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Non-rhotic, do not pronounce the "R" sound
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Why is it important?
Widely used in schools, governments and legal contexts
The official lingua franca in post independence Singapore, allowing ethnic neutrality and facilitating trade
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Attitudes towards it :
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Young people view Singlish as part of their identity and the language of intimacy but is also seemed as inappropriate in formal contexts
Kachru (2006)
Mollin (2006)
Noted that English is not accounted for as a lingua franca or as a component in creole or pidgin varieties
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Jenkins (2009)
Sees English as a lingua franca, a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
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Bruthiax (2008)
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This is because it allows different varieties of the language to develop in different directions, to the extent they are losing mutual intelligibility
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