ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

World Englishes and Creole Languages Today Vol. I: The Schneiderian Thinking and Beyond Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann (eds.) University of Yaounde I, University of Potsdam, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt | Hunan Normal University This book demonstrates, in the context of the Schneiderian thinking and beyond, that world Englishes and creole languages today display interesting sociolinguistic, typological and pedagogic trends and tendencies. These trends and tendencies have been investigated and reported by Thomas Brunner, Thomas Hoffmann, Sarah Buschfeld, Wiebke Ahlers, Aloysius Ngefac, Arthur K. Spears, Kingsley Oluchi Ogwuanyi, Anthony Grant, Mie Hiramoto, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, Lim Jun Jie, Jessica X. M. Choo, Clifton D. Armstrong, Aya Inoue, David B Frank, Lisa Young, John R Rickford, Paula Prescod, and Christian Go Go. The book is unique and differs from previous works in many ways. First and foremost, it is one of the rare works that overtly bring world Englishes and creole languages together in the same volume, providing an opportunity for current trends to be investigated in the context of the groundbreaking work Edgar Schneider has already carried out in these two subfields of linguistics. Second, some paradigms in world Englishes and creole languages have been tested in different parts of the world with reference to current data and the results are reported in this book. Third, the book serves as a forum for reflections beyond the Schneiderian thinking. ISBN 9783969390917 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in English Linguistics 24. 246pp. 2022. World Englishes and Creole Languages Today Vol. II: The Bobdian Thinking and Beyond Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann (eds.) University of Yaounde I, University of Potsdam, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt | Hunan Normal University This book demonstrates, in the context of the Bobdian thinking and beyond, that world Englishes and creole languages today display interesting sociolinguistic, typological and pedagogic trends and tendencies. These trends and tendencies have been investigated and reported by Rajend Mesthrie & Yolandi Ribbens-Klein, Thorsten Brato, Hans-Georg Wolf & Arne Peters, Leslie Barratt, Akinmade Timothy Akande, Christian Mair & Bridget Fonkeu, John Victor Singler, Maria Mazzoli, Ogechi Florence Agbo & Ingo Plag, Ian Hancock, Aloysius Ngefac, Blasius Achiri-Taboh and Jemima Akosua Anderson. The book is unique and differs from previous works in many ways. First and foremost, it is one of the rare works that overtly bring world Englishes and creole languages together in the same volume, providing an opportunity for current trends to be investigated in the context of the groundbreaking work that Augustin Simo Bobda has already carried out in these two subfields of linguistics. Second, some paradigms in world Englishes and creole languages have been tested in different parts of the world with reference to current data and the results are reported in this book. Third, the book serves as a forum for reflections beyond the Bobdian thinking. ISBN 978 3 96939 092 4 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in English Linguistics 25. 270pp. 2022. English Pronunciation & Accents Geo-social Applications of the Natural Phonetics & Tonetics Method Luciano Canepari University of Venice New updated, enlarged and recast edition. The first part gives the ‘International’ accent of English. This is not meant to be a simplified version for foreigners speaking to other foreigners, so often falsely presented as the solution for intercultural communication. The International accent of English, on the contrary (both in its current and native-like versions), is the sublimation of the American and British neutral (or ‘standard’) accents. This avoids the inconvenient peculiarities of both these accents, while privileging their common and most general features, reducing thus their differences and real or seeming exceptions with respect to its current and highly unsatisfactory spelling. The neutral American and British accents are always given along, for comparisons and useful information, as well: Vowels, Consonants (including The ‘whole truth’ on English R), Stress and Intonation (including paraphonics). There follow a few chapters with phonotonetic transcriptions: Conversations, Literary texts, and the IPA sample text. The ‘mediatic’ American (or ‘General American’) and British (or ‘Estuary English’) accents are also fully treated in separate chapters. The second part — with 32 linguistic maps and more than 300 clear (though rigorous and extensive) illustrations for vowels, consonants and intonation — describes more than 200 accents: 121 native (up to 146 with variants), 63 bilingual, and 30 foreign accents. They are so distributed: North America: Canada & USA (including 13 Native-American accents). British Isles: England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Other accents: Australia, New Zealand & South Africa. Second language: Caribbean, Far East, India, Africa, Malta, Gibraltar, the Falklands, and Foreign accents. We can safely say that the book provides the most accurate descriptions of English accents ever done, in 900 pages, thanks to very many clear figures and precise transcriptions, with no ambiguities, that overcome the too obvious limits of the official IPA conception and symbols, sadly designed just for phonemic intralinguistic purposes, not for more useful interlinguistic and diaphonemic purposes. 11 Appendices complete the book with a concise international-pronunciation dictionary with about 2200 selected words, and 6000 homophonic words; more on vowels, consonants, intonation, voices, and diachronic stages. A selected annotated bibliographical review to safely direct readers. ISBN 9783862887491 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Phonetics 13 (2nd ed.). 903pp. 2016.