The World System of Englishes: Accounting for the transnational importance of mobile and mediated vernaculars
The World System of Englishes: Accounting for the transnational importance of mobile and mediated vernaculars
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世界英语体系：考虑移动和媒介白话的跨国重要性
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2013
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C. Mair
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C. Mair
标准英语与非标准英语的联系和相互影响一直是世界英语研究的中心问题。在一个移动的和全球化的世界里，这种接触绝不局限于面对面互动中的特征扩散，跨越空间上的连续领土或社会语言尺度的上下。为了更好地描述和理解当代“英语语言复合体”中标准英语和非标准英语之间的复杂关系（麦克阿瑟2003：56; Mestrie and Bhatt 2008：1-3），本文提出了一个新的基于语言系统理论的理论模型（de Swaan 2002，2010）。虽然这种模式并不是为了取代现有的替代方案，如Kachruvian（1982）Circles，但它将在重要方面对它们进行补充，主要是因为它能够更好地处理英语在后殖民民族国家以外的领域的使用。“世界英语体系”模式是作者在为后殖民时代的西非和加勒比散居者服务的网络论坛中使用皮钦语和克里奥尔语的过程中发展起来的。因此，尼日利亚皮钦语在创建全球化数字民族语言库中的作用将成为其有用性的例证。
Contact between and mutual influences among varieties of standard and non-standard English have always been a central concern in research on World Englishes. In a mobile and globalising world such contacts are by no means restricted to diffusion of features in face-to-face interaction, across contiguous territories in space or up and down the sociolinguistic scale. In order to better represent and understand the complex relationships obtaining between varieties of standard and non-standard English in the contemporary “English language complex” (McArthur 2003: 56; Mesthrie and Bhatt 2008: 1–3), the present paper proposes a new theoretical model, based on language systems theory (de Swaan 2002, 2010). While the model is not designed to supersede existing alternatives, such as the Kachruvian (1982) Circles, it will nevertheless complement them in important ways, chiefly because it is better equipped to handle uses of English in domains beyond the post-colonial nation state. The “World System of Englishes” model was developed in the course of the author’s work on the use of pidgins and creoles in web forums serving the post-colonial West African and Caribbean diasporas. The way Nigerian Pidgin figures in the creation of a globalised digital ethnolinguistic repertoire will hence serve as an illustration of its usefulness.