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English Produced by Japanese L2 Users
eBook - A Preliminary Analysis of Grammatical Forms
ISBN/EAN: 9789811938856
Umbreit-Nr.: 7671168
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S., 2.15 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 06.12.2022
Auflage: 1/2022
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- This book discusses ten grammatical items, with main focus on prepositions and plural nouns, to illustrate the structure of Japanese English or the English spoken by 32 Japanese nationals who are the L2 users of English. Adopting an inductive, theory-neutral, analysis of empirical data collected from recordings of presentational talks, the author demonstrates how standard and nonstandard grammatical forms are distributed, and categorizes these based largely on functional factors. The book describes grammatical forms as a fundamental aspect of linguistic study and adopts a corpus-driven approach to qualify structural features characterizing usage data. This formalization of language usage patterns also facilitates the development of locally relevant norms and thus presents alternatives to the normative varieties traditionally adopted. It examines the effects of multicompetence and unpacks the grammar of Japanese English. The book is of interest to researchers, educators, and studentsconcerned with issues related to World Englishes, English as a lingua franca, English language teaching, and multilingualism, this text is vital to studies in global English language use.<p></p>
- Autorenportrait
- Toshiko Yamaguchi formerly taught at the Department of English Language at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She holds a PhD in Japanese linguistics from Essex University, UK. She has published two single-authored books (both in 2007) and two co-authored edited volumes on Malaysian English (2016) and Voices in in Texts and Contexts (2021).