On norms and prejudices: the notion of "maturation" in the new englishes

Abstract

espanolLa investigacion de las nuevas variedades del ingles (New Englishes) se ha centrado de forma significativa en los ultimos treinta anos en identificar en que punto y en que medida se desvian estas variedades de ingles de la forma nativa o de variedades antiguas (tipicamente el ingles britanico y americano). Consideradas y tratadas a menudo como fruto de una adquisicion deficiente o inadecuada del ingles nativo, estas variedades del ingles se han interpretado conceptualmente como (growing) entidades creciendo (growing), avanzando (advancing), y madurando (maturing) de forma progresiva hacia las variedades de ingles nativo o antiguas. Este articulo rebate esta nocion de maduracion (maturation) y mas bien propone que las nuevas variedades del ingles estan evolucionando de acuerdo a las realidades ecologicas de sus contextos actuales. EnglishResearch on New Englishes in the last thirty years was grossly directed at identifying at what point and to what extent these varieties of English deviate from the native or older varieties (typically British and American). Considered and often treated as fruits of deficient or inadequate acquisition of the native, these Englishes have been conceptually interpreted as growing or advancing or maturing in a progressive manner towards the native or older Englishes. This paper refutes this notion of maturation and rather proposes that New Englishes are evolving according to the ecological realities of their present contexts

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 6 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.