Steady States in the Evolution of New Englishes
Steady States in the Evolution of New Englishes
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新英语演变中的稳定状态
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2007
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Joybrato Mukherjee
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作者：
Joybrato Mukherjee
施奈德提出的新英语的进化模式假设了五个历时阶段的统一模式，这些阶段被认为是世界范围内所有新英语出现的内在过程的基础。本文将这一进化模式应用于印度英语，并根据语言学和社会语言学的证据认为，当今印度英语最好被视为第四阶段的变体，其特征是内在的稳定，但第三阶段的一些特征(即本土化)是并存的。本文认为，印度英语今天所处的状态可以被视为一个稳定的、富有成效的稳定状态，在进化过程中，相互冲突的进步力量和保守主义之间存在着平衡。这种历时发展的稳定状态与当今印度英语作为一种半自治变体的共时性观点有关，该观点的特征是三个主要决定因素：共同核心、干扰和自主。
The evolutionary model of New Englishes offered by Schneider posits a uniform pattern of five diachronic phases that are assumed to underlie the processes inherent in the emergence of all New Englishes worldwide. The present article applies this evolutionary model to Indian English and argues on the basis of linguistic and sociolinguistic evidence that present-day Indian English is best viewed as a phase 4 variety, marked by endonormative stabilization, in which, however, some features of phase 3 (i.e., nativization) coexist. It is suggested that the situation in which Indian English finds itself today could be seen as a stable, productive steady state in the evolutionary process in which there is an equilibrium between conflicting forces of progression and conservativism. This steady state in the diachronic development is linked to the synchronic view of present-day Indian English as a semiautonomous variety, which is characterized by three major determinants: common core, interference, and autonomy.