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13 - World Englishes Old and New: English in Australasia and the South Pacific

from Part II - World Englishes Old and New

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2019

By
Carolin Biewer  and
Kate Burridge
Edited by
Daniel Schreier ,
Marianne Hundt  and
Edgar W. Schneider
Daniel Schreier
Affiliation:
Universität Zürich
Marianne Hundt
Affiliation:
Universität Zürich
Edgar W. Schneider
Affiliation:
Universität Regensburg, Germany
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Summary

Australasia and the Pacific encompass a range of diverse native and non-native Englishes, including contact varieties such as pidgins and creoles. The chapter provides a new approach to these varieties by focusing on their geographical closeness and structural patterns that have the potential of being areal features of Australasian and (South) Pacific Englishes. Owing to the interaction of conditioning factors in language evolution, such features are not only difficult to define but also difficult to trace. Therefore, a significant section of the chapter provides a detailed theoretical discussion on areal features in Australasia and the South Pacific. Finally, three different scenarios are outlined in which the emergence of areal features for at least a number of these varieties seems to be apparent: parallel developments of Australian and New Zealand English; the possible influence of Pasifika Englishes in New Zealand on other varieties; and the effect of similarities in substrate languages, cultural practices, and in the external ecology as a precursor to areal features for ESL, EFL, ethnic varieties, pidgins, and creoles in Australasia and the Pacific.

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areal featuresarealityAustralian EnglishNew Zealand EnglishAboriginal EnglishMaori EnglishPasifika EnglishesSouth Pacific EnglishesTok PisinAustralian creole varieties
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The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes , pp. 282 - 308
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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