Are there any articles dealing with variation in (English as) a foreign language? Sociolinguistic approach to language variation mostly focus on shift between languages, or between standard and dialect. Do fellows here find any research talk about (conscious) variation in a foreign language? Or Could any one suggest any study on language variation from a CDA approach? Thanks.
It is great. Thank you, Shen Chen. It would be a lot better if an article relates variation in a foreign language to identity.
Might you be interested in a paper that I wrote some time ago about Singapore English and its role in National Identity?
Article Phonological patterns in the Englishes of Singapore and Hong Kong
Chapter Englishization as an Aspect of Building Singapore Identity
Dear Lian-Hee Wee,
Thank you for recommending the two papers of yours to me. They are very helpful for me.They could be very useful references in my work. In your article, the focus is on the lexical and phonological variation. Let us know if you have new workds in this regard.
I wonder if there is any discussion on this topic that addresses syntactic or genre variation. Thanks.
Hi Wenge!
For Singapore English, I think you might find works by Lionel Wee, Zhiming Bao, and Lisa Lim useful. I am also reminded of Anne Pakir for a more sociolinguistic side of things. In 2000, Kingsley Bolton has a special volume for Hong Kong English in the journal World Englishes. I think there are some papers there that discusses syntactic and genre issues.
I have a recent paper on how the inner voices of poets are suppressed when their variety of English is not recognised. (The abstract it available at http://www.l3-conference.org/docs/abstract_assoc_prof_lianheewee.pdf ). I can't give you the full paper yet because it is a keynote talk for a conference in May. If you are interested, I can send you the paper if you remind me in mid-May after it has been delivered.
Best wishes,
Lian-Hee
Dear Lian-Hee,
Thanks for directing me to the relevant literature. AND Your above mentioned article is the one I am looking for: Variation and identities. Looking forward to reading your paper. I will contact you then.
Best regards,
Wenge
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