World English

Question 1

What are the top three spoken languages in the world?

Answer 1

1. Chinese (800million)
2. Spanish (400million)
3. English (300million)

Question 2

What is English as a Lingua Franca

Answer 2

English acts as a building bring for non English speakers

Question 3

What was Braj Kachru’s theory?

Answer 3

World Englishes:
Inner circle- Native language
Outer circle- English as a second language
Expanding circle- English is a foreign language

Question 4

What is a creole?

Answer 4

When speakers learn a pidgin language as their native language- usually by a second generation

Question 5

What is a pidgin?

Answer 5

Simplified language that is formed due to language contact between speakers who don’t share a language

Question 6

How many English based pidgins are there?

Answer 6

76 in total, 26 English based

Question 7

What is Schneider’s Dynamic Model?

Answer 7

There are five phases:

1. Foundation- English brought into the new territory
2. Exonormative stabilisation- colonising power looked to for model of use. They determine the language behaviour
3. Nativisation- new varieties of the language emerge
4. Endonormative stabilisation- new variety develops, users no longer look to original language
5. Differentiation- internal diversity emerges, regional dialect/social class influences

Question 8

What is the substantial theory?

Answer 8

When speakers learn a new language they will learn it imperfectly and will pass on these imperfections

Question 9

What does prepone and depone mean?

Answer 9

Prepone- bring something forward in time or date

Depone- state or declare upon oath