A linguistic description of spoken Brunei English in the 1990s
The thesis discusses the variety of English that is spoken today in Brunei Darussalam and assesses its status as a 'New English'. Using a corpus of spoken data which was recorded and transcribed by the author, the thesis attempts to produce an empirically based linguistic description of the grammatical, lexical and discourse features found in spoken Brunei English and to discuss the ways in which these features differ from the equivalent features in Standard British English. The final part of the study is concerned with the pedagogical and language planning implications of recognizing the existence of a Bruneian variety of English, and with proposing an appropriate English language teaching model for the Bruneian education system.
Cane, Graeme
Lexical features; Discourse; Grammatical
A linguistic description of spoken Brunei English in the 1990s. The thesis discusses the variety of English that is spoken today in Brunei Darussalam and assesses its status as a 'New English'. Using a corpus of spoken data which was recorded and transcribed by the author, the thesis attempts to produce an empirically based linguistic description of the grammatical, lexical and discourse features found in spoken Brunei English and to discuss the ways in which these features differ from the equivalent features in Standard British English. The final part of the study is concerned with the pedagogical and language planning implications of recognizing the existence of a Bruneian variety of English, and with proposing an appropriate English language teaching model for the Bruneian education system.
linguistic_description speak english discuss variety_english speak today assess status new english using corpus speak data record transcribed author attempt produce empirically base linguistic_description grammatical_lexical discourse feature_find spoken english discus way feature differ equivalent feature standard british english final_part study_concern pedagogical language_planning implication recognize existence variety_english propose appropriate english_language teach model education_system