West African Englishes on the Move: New Forms of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in Germany (Extension)

这项申请是为了在当前资助期于2022年9月30日结束后将一个正在进行的项目延长一年。目前项目的工作正在顺利推进，而且在所有关键方面都在按计划进行。要求延期有三个原因：(1)新冠肺炎疫情使原定的实地考察和数据收集时间表有必要修改，并造成了各种非关键的延误，额外的时间可以弥补这些延误。(2)该项目最初的重点是在德国的西非移民社区之间以及他们与更广泛的民众之间的语言互动中使用英语和德语。鉴于英语词汇派生词在西非的广泛使用，预计英语词汇派生语/克里奥尔语将在德国侨民环境中发挥额外的作用，尽管作用有限。然而，我们记录的访谈数据中洋泾渭语的出现远远超出了预期，这种语言在新环境中的功能正在发生变化，这种语言在新的环境中的作用正在发生变化，值得社会语言学的彻底关注。(3)受雇于该项目的两名博士后研究人员(分别来自喀麦隆和尼日利亚的第一代移民)发现，这些数据对于未来关于本项目未涵盖的主题的研究非常有趣，这两个主题是：(I)关于“讲英语”的西非移民在获得德语作为第二语言的成功和失败的社会文化预测因素的调查，以及(Ii)该社区对歧视和种族主义及其应对策略的言辞表达。延长12个月将使他们能够准备自己的后续申请，成功的机会更大。成功的申请将有助于促进社区成员在社区进行研究，这被广泛认为是社会语言学和世界英语研究的理想选择。

This application is for a one-year extension of an ongoing project after the current funding period ends on 30 September 2022. Work on the current project is moving ahead successfully and, in all crucial respects, according to plan. An extension is requested for three reasons:(1) The Covid-19 pandemic has necessitated modifications to the original timetable for fieldwork and data collection and caused various types of non-critical delays that would be compensated for by the extra time.(2) The original focus of the project was on the use of English and German in lingua-franca interaction among West African immigrant communities in Germany and between them and the wider population. In view of their widespread use in West Africa, English-lexifier pidgins/creoles were expected to play an additional, if limited role in the German diasporic setting. However, the presence of Pidgin in our recorded interview data far exceeds expectations, and the language’s functions in the new environment are changing to an extent that merits thorough sociolinguistic attention.(3) Two post-doc researchers employed in the project (first-generation immigrants from Cameroon and Nigeria, respectively) are finding the data extremely interesting for future research on topics not covered in the present project, namely (i) an investigation of sociocultural predictors of success and failure in acquiring German as a second language among “Anglophone” West African immigrants, and (ii) the community’s discursive representation of discrimination and racism and their coping strategies. A 12-month extension would enable them to prepare their own follow-up applications with more chances of success. Successful applications would help promote research in the community by members of the community, which is widely held to be a desideratum in sociolinguistics and research on World Englishes.