Word juncture characteristics in world Englishes: a research report

The subtle juncture cues in older varieties of English such as Received Pronunciation can be difficult for speakers of new English varieties to perceive. This study looks at the perception of word juncture characteristics in three varieties of English (British, Hong Kong and Singapore) among British, Hong Kong and Singaporean listeners in order to widen our understanding of English juncture characteristics in general. We find that, even though reaction time data indicates that listeners perform quickest in the variety they are most familiar with, not only are juncture differences in British English difficult for Hong Kong and Singaporean listeners to perceive, they are also the most difficult for British listeners. Juncture characteristics in Hong Kong English are the easiest to distinguish among the three varieties.

Verbal hygiene in the Hong Kong gay community

This paper explores the status and function of English among gay men in Hong Kong through the analysis of postings about English on a popular gay internet forum. The forum, gayhk.com, while mainly featuring discussions about sex, fashion, entertainment and relationships, also contains a surprising amount of discussion about the English language, mostly taking the form of what Cameron refers to as ���verbal hygiene��� ��� the enforcement of language ���standards��� through the criticism of the language use of particular individuals or groups. The analysis of these postings sees them not just as evidence of language attitudes within the gay community, but also as tools with which Chinese gay men in postcolonial Hong Kong position themselves in relation to one another, in relation to ���foreign��� gay men, and in relation to the wider population of Hong Kong.

Taking the Shilling: Songs of and about World War 1

A performance lecture exploring a) contemporary music hall songs as a means of propaganda, recruitment and later criticism, b) the folk songs originating from among the soldiers, based on music hall, hymn and children's song tunes, and c) songs written about World War 1 by songwriters of the sixties and seventies in the critical vein inspired amongst others by the Vietnam War.

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Aufstieg und Niedergang der ro��mischen Welt; Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung.

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The World in Singing Made: David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress"

In line with Wittgenstein's axiom that "what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest," this thesis aims to demonstrate how the gulf between analytic and continental philosophy can best be bridged through the mediation of art. The present thesis brings attention to Markson's work, lauded in the tradition of Faulkner, Joyce, and Lowry, as exemplary of the shift from modernity to postmodernity, wherein the human heart is not only in conflict with itself, but with the language out of which it is necessarily constituted. Markson limns the paradoxical condition of the subject severed from intersubjectivity, and affected not only by the grief of bereavement, which can be defined in Heideggarian terms as anxiety for the ontic negation of a being (i.e., death), but by loss, which I assert is the ontological ground for how Dasein encounters the nothing in anxiety proper.

Italian higher education students��� perspectives on internationalization at home and their identity as English as lingua franca users

This study aims to explore the Italian students��� perspectives on using English in English-medium instruction (EMI) programs in light of the practices of internationalization at home (IaH) at the University of Bologna (UNIBO) in Italy and further investigates whether these attitudes affect their language identity as English as lingua franca (ELF) users. To serve this aim, a mixed-method approach was adopted to collect quantitative and in-depth qualitative data in two phases through an online survey and a semi-structured interview. A total number of 78 Italian students participated in the survey, out of which 14 participants were interviewed. The findings of the online survey indicated that most participants (92%) held a positive perspective toward the use of English in EMI programs and the findings from the interviews were in line with the results of the survey. However, the purpose of the interviews was to explore the participants��� views on their language identity as ELF users. Thematic analysis of the interviews revealed that students experience emotional, cognitive, and social transitions in EMI programs in response to their shift from a non-EMI to an EMI academic setting. Overall, all the above-mentioned transitions were positive and could lead to personal development. However, it can be concluded that the EMI context provides few opportunities for the emergence of significant new subject positions mediated by English in this study. The focus on students��� perspectives on the use of English in EMI programs can contribute to the improvement in language policy planning and internationalized curriculum design by policymakers and alleviate tensions over the controversial issue of the Englishization of higher education by considering how EMI students perceive their use of English as ELF users not superior standard English users.

Comparative handbook of Congo languages; being a comparative grammar of the eight principal languages spoken along the banks of the Congo river from the west coast of Africa to Stanley Falls, a distance of 1300 miles, and of Swahili, the "lingua franca" of the country stretching thence to the east coast, with a comparative vocabulary giving 800 selected words from these languages, with their English equivalents, followed by appendices on six other dialects;

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English as a world language: its role as a lingua francaa sociolinguistic profile of students of secondary schools in Santiago Island, in the Archipelago of Cape Verde

Esta tese centra-se em aspectos relevantes do ingl��s como uma l��ngua universal, no actual contexto globalizado e examina poss��veis mudan��as relacionadas com o seu uso, em especial no continente africano, particularmente no caso de Cabo Verde, no sentido de ponderar eventuais alternativas nas pedagogias lingu��sticas no ensino desta l��ngua que impliquem uma adapta����o �� realidade contempor��nea. Uma vez que, nos nossos tempos, o ingl��s �� a l��ngua de elei����o para a comunica����o intercultural entre povos com v��rias experi��ncias culturais e lingu��sticas, o conhecimento deste idioma torna-se, a cada dia que passa, impreter��vel e indispens��vel, na interac����o intercultural. Em ��frica, as fun����es desempenhadas pelo ingl��s s��o complexas; al��m da l��ngua inglesa ser usada para comunica����o entre etnias, com o estatuto de l��ngua franca, tamb��m tem o papel de preservar a identidade nacional e de estabelecer a unidade entre os povos da mesma na����o. Por conseguinte, �� de considerar talvez ainda com mais pertin��ncia, a adop����o de uma nova filosofia de pedagogia de ensino que permita dotar os seus cidad��os de capacidades que lhes possibilitem comunicar de forma intelig��vel com povos de outras culturas e l��nguas. O primeiro cap��tulo aborda aspectos te��ricos relacionados com a expans��o, comunica����o e mudan��a associadas �� l��ngua inglesa e suas implica����es no ensino em pa��ses onde esta n��o �� l��ngua nativa (L1). O segundo cap��tulo reflecte, em primeiro lugar, sobre a situa����o lingu��stica em ��frica e as l��nguas francas predominantes no continente, incluindo a l��ngua inglesa. Considera tamb��m quest��es relacionadas com o multilinguismo e a identidade, bem como assuntos relacionados com as implica����es da diversidade lingu��stica para a educa����o dos povos africanos.

Terminologia accademico-istituzionale in inglese lingua franca: Revisione del database terminologico dell'universit�� di Bologna.

Il presente lavoro rientra nella cornice dei progetti volti ad agevolare la traduzione e produzione da parte delle Universit�� italiane di contenuti online e documentazione ufficiale anche in ELF, in modo da renderli pi�� facilmente accessibili a livello internazionale. Uno strumento utile a questo scopo, di cui molte universit�� si stanno dotando, �� un supporto terminologico relativo al dominio accademico-istituzionale. Questo elaborato si suddivide in sei capitoli. Il primo capitolo, di introduzione, �� seguito dal capitolo 2, che presenta la terminologia come disciplina, offre una descrizione dei concetti della terminologia classica rilevanti per il lavoro, seguita da una panoramica degli strumenti di sistematizzazione della conoscenza utilizzati. Il capitolo 3 introduce il processo europeo di riforma dei sistemi di istruzione superiore, che ha motivato la creazione da parte di diverse universit�� europee di strumenti di gestione della terminologia accademico-istituzionale. Vengono anche illustrate alcune Banche Dati terminologiche reperite presso altre universit�� europee. Segue l���analisi dei progetti avviati dall���Universit�� di Bologna, in particolare della Banca Dati di terminologia riferita alla Didattica e all���Organizzazione dell���Ateneo creata dall���Ufficio Relazioni Internazionali. All���interno del capitolo 4 viene descritto il lavoro di analisi delle fonti utilizzate durante la creazione della Banca Dati. Il capitolo 5 introduce le fonti aggiuntive utilizzate nel processo di revisione e compilazione, ovvero i corpora specialistici di dominio accademico-istituzionale, e descrive il processo di analisi metodologica e le modifiche strutturali implementate sulla Banca Dati originale, per poi illustrare le modalit�� di ricerca e di compilazione dei campi della Banca Dati. L���ultimo capitolo descrive la Banca Dati finale, riassumendo brevemente i risultati del lavoro svolto e presentando la proposta del metodo di assegnazione della tipologia di scheda terminologica a ciascun termine in base alle sue caratteristiche funzionali come punto di riferimento per la successiva compilazione delle restanti sezioni della Banca Dati.

English as a Global Language

How far has English already spread? How much further can we expect it to go? In response to the first question, this chapter tries to identify the areas of life where English already serves as a lingua franca in the world (more or less) and those where the language faces sharp competition and does not threaten to marginalize the other major languages. The former areas of life are international safety, the internal business of international organizations, internal communication within the international news industry, international sports and science. The latter areas are the press, television, the internet, publishing and international trade. As to the second question, about the future prospects of English, the chapter argues that the advance of English will depend heavily on the motives to learn the other major languages in the world as well. Based on the empirical evidence, the same model applies to the incentives to learn English and these other languages. On the important topic of welfare, the cultural market is the single one where it is arguable that the progress of English has gone too far. English dominance in the song, the cinema and the best-seller is indeed extraordinary and difficult to reconcile with the evidence popular attachments to home languages, which is otherwise strong and apparent.