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12 - Transcultural Diffusion: The New Native Englishes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2023

Peter Trudgill
Peter Trudgill
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Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
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The most recent chapter in the story of the geographical spread of mother-tongue English around the world is a tale of transcultural diffusion, of places in the world which native English has spread to, not through the arrival from elsewhere of native speakers, as in the settlement of Australia, but through the transformation of communities of non-native English speakers into native-speaking communities, through language shift, as in the ongoing case of Singapore.

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models of Englishlanguage-shift varietiesSingaporeBlack South African EnglishMaori Accented Englishnative English in India
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The Long Journey of English
A Geographical History of the Language
 , pp. 156 - 164
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Deterding, David. 2007. Singapore English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Google Scholar
Mesthrie, Rajend (ed.). 2008. Varieties of English, vol. 4: Africa, South and Southeast Asia. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Trudgill, Peter, & Hannah, Jean. 2017. International English: a guide to varieties of English around the world. London: Routledge.Google Scholar

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