New Englishes, New Methods

新英语，新方法网络的主要目的是批判性地反思世界/新英语研究领域目前使用的研究方法。新英语的研究涉及的英语不是在传统的第一语言背景下，如英国和北美，但在非洲大陆的国家，如尼日利亚，东南亚地区，如菲律宾或新加坡，和加勒比海地区，如牙买加或特立尼达。迄今为止，对这些变体的研究都是使用在传统的第一语言环境中开发的工具和方法进行的，这种研究方法虽然方便，但可能并不完全合适。因此，网络质疑这些方法在非西方，多语言，新英语环境中的适用性。研究的方法包括：语音学和音系学（包括但不限于词汇集和各种形式的工具分析）;话语分析和语用学（特别是话语完成任务和实验）;句法和形态学（相对维斯使用语料库描述新英语的语法系统）;和语言态度研究（特别是间接方法）。具体而言，该网络认为，这些方法的适用性，在上下文和扬声器之间的数据收集这些方法是外星人。它还研究了目前可用的数据在多大程度上代表了新英语的发言者，以及它们是否是英语的真实例子，因为它是由其用户所说的。该网络的另一个目的是促进与也在新英语工作的国际学者的对话，他们的见解将大大丰富我们的探索。因此，该网络提议举办一系列讲习班，邀请来自澳大利亚、加纳和美国的国际研究人员参加。这些研讨会不仅旨在进行讨论，而且还允许学者们聚集在一起，为研究这些品种提供新的方法，并改进现有的方法。除了用新英语编写一系列关于研究方法的工作文件外，该网络还将编写一本关于这一主题的文章集。希望这本书能出现在与约翰·本杰明斯共同出版的《世界各地的英语品种》系列中。

The main aim of the New Englishes, New Methods network is to critically reflect upon the research methods currently used in the field of World/ New Englishes research. New Englishes research deals with varieties of English spoken not in traditional first language contexts, like the Britain and North American, but in countries within the African continent, such as Nigeria, South East Asian territories, such as the Philippines or Singapore, and the Caribbean, such as Jamaica or Trinidad. Research on these varieties has to date been carried out with tools and approaches developed in and for traditional first language contexts, an approach to research which though convenient, might not be altogether appropriate. Thus the network questions the applicability of these methods in non-Western, multilingual, New Englishes contexts. Methods under examination include those used in the areas of: phonetics and phonology (including but not limited to lexical sets and various forms of instrumental analysis); discourse analysis and pragmatics (especially discourse completion tasks and experiments); syntax and morphology (vis à vis the use of corpora for the description of the grammatical systems of New Englishes); and language attitudes studies (particularly indirect methods). Specifically, the network considers the suitability of these methods for data collection in contexts and among speakers to which and for whom these methods are alien. It also examines the extent to which current available data are representative of speakers of New Englishes and whether they are authentic examples of English as it is spoken by its users. A further aim of the network is to facilitate discourse with international scholars who also work in New Englishes, and whose insights will enrich our exploration significantly. Thus, the network proposes to hold a series of workshops, to which international researchers from Australia, Ghana, and the United States are invited. These workshops are not only intended to enable discussion, but also to allow scholars to come together to produce new methods for researching these varieties, as well as improve upon already existing approaches. In addition to producing a series of working papers in research methods in New Englishes, the network will produce a book of articles dealing with this topic. It is hoped that this book will appear in the Varieties of English Around the World series, published with John Benjamins.