Intensifying and downtoning in South Asian Englishes

IF 0.8 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS English World-Wide Pub Date : 2021-11-17 DOI:10.1075/eww.21064.fun
Nina Funke, Tobias Bernaisch
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As studies on socio-pragmatics in South Asian Englishes and – more generally – postcolonial Englishes are still rare, the present study analyses how age, formality of context, gender, topic of the conversation and type-token ratio of a given speaker influence intensifiers and downtoners in spoken Indian, Sri Lankan and British English as represented in the International Corpus of English. Central research interests cover (a) differences in the frequencies of intensifiers/downtoners regarding these factors and across the varieties studied and (b) variety-specific intensifiers/downtoners in these regional varieties. Two random forest analyses highlight that, while topic and type-token ratio are more important predictors than age and gender, all variables are – to different degrees – sensitive to variety. Possible explanations for a higher incidence of intensifiers/downtoners in British English than in Indian and Sri Lankan English include intensification strategies transferred from indigenous languages or high degrees of uncertainty avoidance in the South Asian speech communities.
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南亚英语的强化和弱化
由于对南亚英语和更普遍的后殖民英语中的社会语用学的研究仍然很少,本研究分析了特定说话者的年龄、语境形式、性别、话题和类型表征比例如何影响国际英语语料库中所代表的印度、斯里兰卡和英国英语口语中的增强词和抑制词。中心研究兴趣包括(a)关于这些因素和所研究品种的增强剂/抑制剂频率的差异,以及(b)这些区域品种中的品种特异性增强剂/抑制剂。两项随机森林分析强调,虽然主题和类型表征比率比年龄和性别更重要,但所有变量都在不同程度上对多样性敏感。与印度和斯里兰卡英语相比,英国英语中强化词/抑词的发生率更高的可能解释包括从土著语言转移来的强化策略或南亚语言社区中高度避免不确定性。
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English World-Wide
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期刊介绍: English World-Wide has established itself as the leading and most comprehensive journal dealing with varieties of English. The focus is on scholarly discussions of new findings in the dialectology and sociolinguistics of the English-speaking communities (native and second-language speakers), but general problems of sociolinguistics, creolistics, language planning, multilingualism and modern historical sociolinguistics are included if they have a direct bearing on modern varieties of English. Although teaching problems are normally excluded, English World-Wide provides important background information for all those involved in teaching English throughout the world.
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