The endonormative standards of European English: Emerging or elusive?
The endonormative standards of European English: Emerging or elusive?
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欧洲英语的规范性标准：新兴还是难以捉摸？
DOI：
10.1075/eww.34.1.04van
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
0.4
通讯作者：
H. Quené
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作者：
W. V. D. Doel;H. Quené
有人断言，一种共同的欧洲英语变体正在出现。这种所谓的“欧洲英语”被认为是非英语母语者趋同的结果，反映了对核心圈规范的逐渐放弃，这些规范被认为越来越不符合非英语母语者的交际需求。到目前为止，还没有证据表明，欧洲人除了以母语为母语的人的标准外，还以其他任何标准来判断彼此的英语水平--特别是在发音方面。尽管如此，确定欧洲非英语母语者在评估欧洲同胞的发音时是否表现出趋同性，并且在这方面不仅明显偏离核心圈英语母语者，而且也偏离非欧洲法官，这将是有趣的。为了研究这种可能性，进行了一项大规模的互联网调查，其中不同群体的英语用户（本地和非本地，欧洲和非欧洲，N = 373）评估的发音功能的五个欧洲口音的英语，通过全球评级和详细的反应。所观察到的土著和非土著法官的反应趋同，与欧洲大陆正在出现的规范性发音标准不符。因此，这些发现未能支持有关欧洲英语变体正在出现的说法。
It has been asserted that a common European variety of English is currently emerging. This so-called “European English” is claimed to be the result of convergence among non-native English speakers, and to reflect a gradual abandonment of Inner Circle norms, which are deemed to be increasingly irrelevant to non-native speakers’ communicative needs. Evidence is so far lacking that Europeans judge each other’s proficiency in English by anything other than native-speaker standards — particularly as regards pronunciation. Nonetheless, it would be interesting to establish whether European non-native speakers of English demonstrated convergence when evaluating the pronunciation of fellow Europeans, and in this respect deviated significantly not only from Inner Circle English native speakers but also from non-European judges. To investigate this possibility, a large-scale Internet survey was carried out in which different groups of users of English (native and non-native, European and non-European, N = 373) evaluated the pronunciation features of five European accents of English, by means of global ratings and detailed responses. The observed convergence of native and non-native judges’ responses does not correspond with emerging endonormative pronunciation standards on the European continent. Hence these findings fail to support the claims about an emerging European English variety.