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

此申请是在当前资助期于2022年9月30日结束后，将正在进行的项目延长一年。当前项目的工作进展顺利，在所有关键方面都按计划进行。请求延期的原因有三个：(1)由于Covid-19大流行，需要修改实地工作和数据收集的原始时间表，并造成各种非关键延误，这些延误将由额外的时间弥补。(2)该项目的最初重点是在德国的西非移民社区之间以及他们与更广泛的人口之间的通用语互动中使用英语和德语。鉴于英语在西非的广泛使用，人们期望具有英语词性的洋泾浜语/克里奥尔语在德国散居环境中发挥额外的作用，尽管作用有限。然而，在我们记录的采访数据中，洋泾浜语的出现远远超出了预期，而且这种语言在新环境中的功能正在发生变化，其程度值得社会语言学家进行彻底的关注。(3)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）发现这些数据对本项目未涵盖的主题的未来研究非常有趣，即(i)对“英语国家”西非移民中学习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；（ii）社区对歧视和种族主义的话语表现及其应对策略。延长12个月将使他们有更多的机会准备自己的后续申请。成功的申请将有助于促进社区成员在社区内的研究，这被广泛认为是社会语言学和世界英语研究的理想。

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.