Kennesaw State University

PRWR 6760 World Englishes
Fall 2007

Syllabus   |   Year of Atlantic World

November 29

 

Survey for Professor Guglielmo’s research project

 

November 14

 

Review of Dr. Vaillancourt’s presentation

 

Outline for November 1, 2007

 

Outline on sheet

Why English is hard to learn

 

 

Outline for October 25, 2007

 

1)   Politically Correct Words

 

Definitions, Words, Debates, Asian English, Technology

 

2)  Liberation Linguistics and the Quirk Concern – decide

      once and for all

§         When is it innovation and when is it deviation

3)  Words

4)  Deviations by race?

5)  Asian English

§         Outer Circle countries (p. 39)

§         Singlish (p. 112)

§         Indian English

§         Pragmatics in Asia

6)  Technology

 

 

 

October 11, 2007

1)  Irregular verbs and the future of Englishes.

2)  Colgate ad in Tok Pisin

3)  Examples of English/FL in advertisement

4)  Sharing of Analysis

5)  Writing for international audiences

     More writing for international audiences

6)  Sharing of Analysis

7)  Schedule for next week

  • online class
  • sharing of writing for international audience
    • one page business letter
    • advertisement
    • review two letters and post comments on WebCT

 

 

Just Maps

 

 

Journals
English Today
English World-wide
World Englishes 

 

Websites

NBC Report on Bad English
Vanishing Verbs in News
Canadian Vowel Raising
Macaulay's Minute

Timeline for History of English
British Council
English is hard to learn
Newspapers

British National Corpus
Australian English Dictionary

EuroEnglish
English Style Manual for Europe
European English

Bibliography on English in Africa
Article on Nigerian English
PowerPoint on Bokamba Artice
Engrish
Language Policy in India



Online Readings

 

 

 

What is standard English?

Are dialects fading?

The truth about change

Discussing disabilities

 

Article on Nigerian English

 

Articles on Designing Websites for International

Audiences

Article one
Article two
Article three