List of Figures and Tables

List of Figures

Figure 2.1 The Scottish‐English linguistic continuum

Figure 18.1 Trajectory of language change for African Americans in Hyde County

Figure 18.2 Trajectory of language change for Beech Bottom

Figure 18.3 Trajectory of language change for Texana

Figure 22.1 The situation of the writer in world Englishes

Figure 34.1 Global English typology: mutually feeding relationship

Figure 34.2 English expression and its pronunciation guide in katakana

Figure 34.3 Glocalization: context sensitive

Figure 34.4 Glocalization of English: adaptation of chilled beer

List of Tables

Table 4.1 Mother tongue speakers of more than 100,000 (2011 Census)

Table 4.2 Canada’s five major immigration waves

Table 4.3 Five phases in Schneider’s Dynamic Model applied to Canadian English

Table 4.4 Major dialect zones in Canadian English, by phonetic features and by lexical features

Table 4.5 Attitude survey among 429 Vancouverites in 2009

Table 13.1 Languages (besides Russian) used by over 0.1% of the population of the Russian Federation

Table 18.1 Some distinguishing features of African American English

Table 24.1 Intelligibility: subjects scoring 60% and above

Table 24.2 Comprehensibility: subjects scoring 60% and above

Table 24.3 Interpretability: subjects scoring 60% and above

Table 24.4 Percentage of subject groups that thought they understood 60% or more of the conversations between the five sets of interactors

Table 24.5 Percentage of subjects making accurate guesses as to the nationalities of the pairs in the conversations

Table 24.6 Subjects’ perceptions of interactors’ level of education and proficiency in English

Table 25.1 Speakers of major languages (in percentages)

Table 25.2 Functional domains of English

Table 28.1 Describing the grammars of world Englishes

Table 29.1 Composition of the Brown Corpus

Table 29.2 ICE countries/regions

Table 29.3 Composition of the ICE Corpora

Table 29.4 ICE available corpora

Table 29.5 An outline of the units and structures from morpheme to discourse that can be investigated using the completed ICE corpora

Table 34.1 Script mixing in global advertising – Functions

Table 34.2 Models of globalization – Competitive and cooperative

Table 39.1 Fourteen ways to conceptualize English language proficiency

Table 39.2 Scoring intelligibility in storytelling ability

Table 39.3 Six categories for rating pragmatics role‐plays

Table 41.1 Research on world Englishes