Lehrende/r: Prof. Dr. Guenther Lampert
Veranstaltungsart: Vorlesung
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Deutsch
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Inhalt: While some effects of 'English going global' have been widely discussed, with the focus being on the development of a world lingua franca English threatening local identities ('English as a killer language'), the resulting linguistic commonalities and differences have only recently come into view. On the one hand, so-called Angloversals (a blend of Anglophone and universal) are being studied (as can be witnessed by having a look at the recent Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English): joint trends observable in the course of the emergence of postcolonial Englishes. On the other hand, we observe strong localization tendencies leading to the development of many new varieties of English (World Englishes). The lecture will trace the history of global English, present the top candidates for the status of Angloversal, and, above all, give a survey of Postcolonial English today, including a glimpse of some lesser-known varieties.
