The present course is concerned with types of English which evolved in the past two centuries in the southern half of the anglophone world. For the purposes of this seminar this also includes the anglophone areas of Asia, e.g. India, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines. The southern hemisphere in the strict sense includes a number of countries which can be divided into major and minor ones. Among the former are South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Among the latter are the Falkland Islands, Tristan da Cunha and various island locations in the Southern Pacific (including Hawaii). The purpose of the seminar is to examine different kinds of English, to see how they arose historically and to examine the function of English in the present-day societies of the Southern Hemisphere which use English in every-day life.
Recommended literature
Arthur, Jay M. 1996. Aboriginal English. A Cultural Study. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Bell, Allan & Janet Holmes (eds) 1990. New Zealand Ways of Speaking English. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Blair, David & Peter Collins (eds) 2001. English in Australia. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bolton, Kingsley & Braj B. Kachru (eds) 2007. Asian Englishes. London: Routledge.
Bolton, Kingsley & Maria Lourdes Bautista (eds) 2008. Philippine English: Linguistic and Literary Perspectives. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
de Klerk, Vivian (ed.) 1996. Focus on South Africa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Deterding, David 2007. Singapore English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Gordon, Elizabeth, Lyle Campbell, Jennifer Hay, Margaret MacLagan, Andrea Sudbury & Peter Trudgill 2004. New Zealand English: Its Origins and Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hay, Jennifer, Margaret Maclagan & Elizabeth Gordon 2008. New Zealand English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Hughes, Joan M. 1989. Australian Words and their Origins. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Kachru, Braj B., Yamuna Kachru & S. N. Sridhar (eds) 2007. Language in South Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kachru, Braj B., Yamuna Kachru and Cecil L. Nelson (eds) 2006. The handbook of World Englishes. Oxford: Blackwell.
Kirkpatrick, Andy 2010. The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes. London: Routledge.
Leimgruber, Jakob R. E. 2013. Singapore English. Structure, Variation and Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mesthrie, Rajend (ed.) 2002. Language in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Moore, Bruce. 2008. Speaking Our Language. The Story of Australian English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Peters, Pam, Peter C. Collins and Adam Smith (eds) 2009. Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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