Varieties of English

Course content

This course will survey different varieties of current World Englishes. The purpose of this course is to investigate the spread of English as an international language with a focus on linguistic variation. Using many examples, audio and videoclips, we will describe different varieties, sketch their historical developments and define their phonological, lexical, morphological and syntactic characteristics. We discuss the multitudes of World Englishes and interactions of native and non-native Englishes with reference to models and approaches from language contact and sociolinguistics.