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This book uncovers how women and men from around the world really speak English based on empirical evidence.
List of contents
1. Introduction: genderlectal variation in the English-speaking world Tobias Bernaisch; 2. Localisation, globalisation and gender discourse: pragmatic variation in Ghanaian English Beke Hansen; 3. Sociolinguistic variation in intensifier usage in Indian and British English: gender and language in the Inner and Outer Circles Robert Fuchs; 4. Tag questions and gender in Indian English Claudia Lange and Sven Leuckert; 5. Hedges and gender in the Inner and Expanding Circles Tobias Bernaisch; 6. The role of gender in postcolonial syntactic choice-making: evidence from the genitive alternation in British and Sri Lankan English Stefan Th. Gries, Benedikt Heller and Nina Funke; 7. Social constraints on syntactic variation: the role of gender in Jamaican English ditransitive constructions Melanie Rothlisberger; 8. Linguistic colloquialisation, democratisation and gender in Asian Englishes Lucia Loureiro-Porto; 9. Gender, writing and editing in South African Englishes: a case study of the genitive alternation Melanie A. Law and Haidee Kotze.
About the author
Tobias Bernaisch is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Justus Liebig University, Giessen. He has compiled corpora for, and worked extensively on, World Englishes with a particular focus on Asian Englishes.
Summary
Based on authentic English-language material, and backed by the latest statistical methods, this book explores the impact of gender on linguistic choices in English-speaking countries worldwide, considering local social realities. It is essential reading for researchers and advanced students with an interest in language, gender and World Englishes.
Foreword
This book uncovers how women and men from around the world really speak English based on empirical evidence.
