world standard English (WSE)

Question 1

what is world standard english?

Answer 1

language that ties all the varieties together

Question 2

who is the theorist of the circle of englishes?

Answer 2

McArthur

Question 3

languages in the inner circle?

Answer 3

american english and british english

Question 4

language in the outer circle?

Answer 4

Dialect forms, outer circle Englishes and pidgins and creoles tend to be regarded as non-standard and therefore inferior.

Question 5

what has been codified?

Answer 5

standard english - (its rules written up in grammar books and dictionaries), it can be used for a wide variety of purposes and it is promoted in a country’s education system. It has high status within its culture but is spoken by a minority.

Question 6

crystals opinion on WSE?

Answer 6

Crystal believes there isn’t such a thing as a World Standard English currently.
There isn’t enough uniform agreement on spelling, lexis, grammar for this to be so.
Identity is too big a factor: nations want to preserve their own variety.
The current ‘growth spurt’ of English is comparatively recent, so hard to predict what might happen going forward.
Divergence (rather than convergence) is happening between English speaking varieties worldwide –
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English will continue to pick up local features from contact with other languages and the words to express things relevant to that locality.