Christiane Meierkord
Biographic Data
| ID | 649833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christiane Meierkord |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christiane |
| FAMILY NAME | Meierkord |
| SIGNATURE | MEIERKORD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ruhr University Bochum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6292-3690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
World Englishes at the Grassroots
English at the grassroots refers to uses of English outside the societal elites, that is, beyond academia, educational institutions, and international business and organizations. Historically, elite contexts were where English predominantly spread whenever it was transported to new territories and acquired by speakers for whom it was not their first language, particularly when this dispersion involved formal learning of English in educational con…
Special issue: Introduction More insights into world Englishes at the grassroots
‘English at the grassroots’ refers to English used by non‐elite speakers from lower social strata, with diverse acquisition paths, proficiency levels and usage. These Englishes are often heterogeneous, shaped by informal contexts and professions. English linguistics has long examined English as a pluricentric language, focusing on its use across first language (L1), second language (L2) and foreign language (FL) contexts, often through corpora, w…
English - A language that thrives on diversities
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Celebrating linguistic fieldwork
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Society, Culture and the Speech Act of Praise – Observations from Ugandan English vis-à-vis British English
Whilst there has recently been an upsurge in studies into self-praise on social media, and despite the fact that there exists a vast amount of literature available on speech acts such as requests, apologies and compliments, praise in traditional spoken and written English has largely escaped scholarly attention. However, it seems to form a substantial part of everyday behaviour in various linguacultures, and the Ugandan ones appear to belong to t…
Between exonormative traditions and local acceptance: A corpus-linguistic study of modals of obligation and spatial prepositions in spoken Ugandan English
Research into Ugandan English places it in the nativisation phase of the evolution of Englishes, amidst a nexus of local acceptance with ingredients of endonormativity and ingrained exonormative traditions. The current study shows how the use of modal verbs of obligation and spatial prepositions provides insights into how the nexus of the above phenomena has shaped Ugandan English. For example, although the preference of have to over must is a gl…
Post‐protectorate Uganda and current models of influence across Englishes
This paper presents the overall results of a research project that investigated factors determining how speakers of Ugandan English express futurity, ability and obligation. Findings reveal that forms identified to convey these meanings in American, Indian, Kenyan or Nigerian English, and whose use would reveal influence from these, are seldom used. Rather, persisting exonormative orientation towards British English and first‐language influence s…
Between first language influence, exonormative orientation and migration: Future time expressions in post-protectorate Ugandan English
Like other Englishes, Ugandan English is not a homogeneous variety. Being a second language to the vast majority of its multilingual speakers, it is, inevitably, influenced by their first languages. However, first language influence is just one factor that continues to shape Ugandan English. This paper reports on how influence from exonormative teaching models and the effects of migration, which constantly results in frequent and regular contact …
World Englishes at the Grassroots
English in paradise: The Maldives
The spread of English has reached almost every corner of the world, and the Republic of the Maldives is no exception. Following the nation's opening to the outside world, the introduction of English as a medium of instruction at secondary and tertiary level of education, and its government's recognition of the opportunities offered through tourism, English has now firmly established itself in the country. As such, Maldives is quite similar to the…
English in contemporary Sweden: Perceptions, policies, and narrated practices
This paper compares trends in Sweden's language planning and language policies, and particularly the rationale underlying recent government legislation, to actual language use at the 'grass roots' of society, in order to investigate the extent to which academic and official rationales are confirmed by observed language practices. The passing of the Swedish Language Act of 2009 followed debates in academia and the media which not infrequently char…
English as Lingua Franca
As Bolton (2000, p. 265) points out, “Today it is something of a cliche that English is a global language.” As such, English is no longer used primarily by speakers for whom English is a native or first language (L1).
Dreams and Realities: Developing Countries and the English Language edited by Hywel Coleman
Towards developmental world Englishes
Over the last three decades scholars promoting the world Englishes paradigm (WE) have worked towards establishing a more positive attitude towards international varieties of English. However, despite the best intentions of Western linguists working in this field, there is an obvious imbalance between the developed and developing world in many contexts of English language education. Educators and teachers in many Outer Circle and Expanding Circle …
It's kuloo tu: Recent developments in Kenya's Englishes
In most areas where English is spoken today, it is part of a multilingual context. English is one component of the sociolinguistic profile of many nations. In nations where English is a mother tongue or first language for the majority of the population, other speech communities contribute further languages to the linguistic environment. And in contexts where the majority speak a language other than English, it may serve as a language of administr…
Comment 6
Lingua franca communication past and present
In this paper, lingua franca communication is understood as involving language contact (cf. Thomason 2001: 21), which results in a linguistic situation characterized by coexisting and competing linguistic features of which speakers may eventually select individual ones for permanent, regular usage. Greek, Latin, and English in medieval British society, especially in London, will serve as reference cases in the first part of this contribution. The…
Syntactic variation in interactions across international Englishes
Discussions of World Englishes mainly concentrate on the particularities of individual varieties of English spoken in the different parts of the world. There is, however, another form of World English which emerges when speakers of different international varieties interact with each other. When English is the mother tongue of neither of the speakers who use the language for communicative purposes, they employ it as a lingua franca . This paper d…
Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction
This book addresses current approaches to sequentiality in pragmatics and discourse analysis. It reflects the current moves in ethnomethodological conversation analysis and speech act theory to cross methodological borders to arrive at a conception of a sequence, which extends the local notion of sequentiality by integrating further constitutive components, such as cognition, intentionality, activity type, culture and genre. The individual contri…
English in contemporary Sweden: Perceptions, policies, and narrated practices
This paper compares trends in Sweden's language planning and language policies, and particularly the rationale underlying recent government legislation, to actual language use at the 'grass roots' of society, in order to investigate the extent to which academic and official rationales are confirmed by observed language practices. The passing of the Swedish Language Act of 2009 followed debates in academia and the media which not infrequently char…
Towards developmental world Englishes
Over the last three decades scholars promoting the world Englishes paradigm (WE) have worked towards establishing a more positive attitude towards international varieties of English. However, despite the best intentions of Western linguists working in this field, there is an obvious imbalance between the developed and developing world in many contexts of English language education. Educators and teachers in many Outer Circle and Expanding Circle …
Syntactic variation in interactions across international Englishes
Discussions of World Englishes mainly concentrate on the particularities of individual varieties of English spoken in the different parts of the world. There is, however, another form of World English which emerges when speakers of different international varieties interact with each other. When English is the mother tongue of neither of the speakers who use the language for communicative purposes, they employ it as a lingua franca . This paper d…
Between first language influence, exonormative orientation and migration: Future time expressions in post-protectorate Ugandan English
Like other Englishes, Ugandan English is not a homogeneous variety. Being a second language to the vast majority of its multilingual speakers, it is, inevitably, influenced by their first languages. However, first language influence is just one factor that continues to shape Ugandan English. This paper reports on how influence from exonormative teaching models and the effects of migration, which constantly results in frequent and regular contact …
Lingua franca communication past and present
In this paper, lingua franca communication is understood as involving language contact (cf. Thomason 2001: 21), which results in a linguistic situation characterized by coexisting and competing linguistic features of which speakers may eventually select individual ones for permanent, regular usage. Greek, Latin, and English in medieval British society, especially in London, will serve as reference cases in the first part of this contribution. The…
Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction
This book addresses current approaches to sequentiality in pragmatics and discourse analysis. It reflects the current moves in ethnomethodological conversation analysis and speech act theory to cross methodological borders to arrive at a conception of a sequence, which extends the local notion of sequentiality by integrating further constitutive components, such as cognition, intentionality, activity type, culture and genre. The individual contri…
Syntactic variation in interactions across international Englishes
Discussions of World Englishes mainly concentrate on the particularities of individual varieties of English spoken in the different parts of the world. There is, however, another form of World English which emerges when speakers of different international varieties interact with each other. When English is the mother tongue of neither of the speakers who use the language for communicative purposes, they employ it as a lingua franca . This paper d…
Lingua franca communication past and present
In this paper, lingua franca communication is understood as involving language contact (cf. Thomason 2001: 21), which results in a linguistic situation characterized by coexisting and competing linguistic features of which speakers may eventually select individual ones for permanent, regular usage. Greek, Latin, and English in medieval British society, especially in London, will serve as reference cases in the first part of this contribution. The…
Comment 6
It's kuloo tu: Recent developments in Kenya's Englishes
In most areas where English is spoken today, it is part of a multilingual context. English is one component of the sociolinguistic profile of many nations. In nations where English is a mother tongue or first language for the majority of the population, other speech communities contribute further languages to the linguistic environment. And in contexts where the majority speak a language other than English, it may serve as a language of administr…
Towards developmental world Englishes
Over the last three decades scholars promoting the world Englishes paradigm (WE) have worked towards establishing a more positive attitude towards international varieties of English. However, despite the best intentions of Western linguists working in this field, there is an obvious imbalance between the developed and developing world in many contexts of English language education. Educators and teachers in many Outer Circle and Expanding Circle …
English as Lingua Franca
As Bolton (2000, p. 265) points out, “Today it is something of a cliche that English is a global language.” As such, English is no longer used primarily by speakers for whom English is a native or first language (L1).
Dreams and Realities: Developing Countries and the English Language edited by Hywel Coleman
English in contemporary Sweden: Perceptions, policies, and narrated practices
This paper compares trends in Sweden's language planning and language policies, and particularly the rationale underlying recent government legislation, to actual language use at the 'grass roots' of society, in order to investigate the extent to which academic and official rationales are confirmed by observed language practices. The passing of the Swedish Language Act of 2009 followed debates in academia and the media which not infrequently char…
English in paradise: The Maldives
The spread of English has reached almost every corner of the world, and the Republic of the Maldives is no exception. Following the nation's opening to the outside world, the introduction of English as a medium of instruction at secondary and tertiary level of education, and its government's recognition of the opportunities offered through tourism, English has now firmly established itself in the country. As such, Maldives is quite similar to the…
World Englishes at the Grassroots
Between exonormative traditions and local acceptance: A corpus-linguistic study of modals of obligation and spatial prepositions in spoken Ugandan English
Research into Ugandan English places it in the nativisation phase of the evolution of Englishes, amidst a nexus of local acceptance with ingredients of endonormativity and ingrained exonormative traditions. The current study shows how the use of modal verbs of obligation and spatial prepositions provides insights into how the nexus of the above phenomena has shaped Ugandan English. For example, although the preference of have to over must is a gl…
Post‐protectorate Uganda and current models of influence across Englishes
This paper presents the overall results of a research project that investigated factors determining how speakers of Ugandan English express futurity, ability and obligation. Findings reveal that forms identified to convey these meanings in American, Indian, Kenyan or Nigerian English, and whose use would reveal influence from these, are seldom used. Rather, persisting exonormative orientation towards British English and first‐language influence s…
Between first language influence, exonormative orientation and migration: Future time expressions in post-protectorate Ugandan English
Like other Englishes, Ugandan English is not a homogeneous variety. Being a second language to the vast majority of its multilingual speakers, it is, inevitably, influenced by their first languages. However, first language influence is just one factor that continues to shape Ugandan English. This paper reports on how influence from exonormative teaching models and the effects of migration, which constantly results in frequent and regular contact …
Society, Culture and the Speech Act of Praise – Observations from Ugandan English vis-à-vis British English
Whilst there has recently been an upsurge in studies into self-praise on social media, and despite the fact that there exists a vast amount of literature available on speech acts such as requests, apologies and compliments, praise in traditional spoken and written English has largely escaped scholarly attention. However, it seems to form a substantial part of everyday behaviour in various linguacultures, and the Ugandan ones appear to belong to t…
Celebrating linguistic fieldwork
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Special issue: Introduction More insights into world Englishes at the grassroots
‘English at the grassroots’ refers to English used by non‐elite speakers from lower social strata, with diverse acquisition paths, proficiency levels and usage. These Englishes are often heterogeneous, shaped by informal contexts and professions. English linguistics has long examined English as a pluricentric language, focusing on its use across first language (L1), second language (L2) and foreign language (FL) contexts, often through corpora, w…
English - A language that thrives on diversities
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
World Englishes at the Grassroots
English at the grassroots refers to uses of English outside the societal elites, that is, beyond academia, educational institutions, and international business and organizations. Historically, elite contexts were where English predominantly spread whenever it was transported to new territories and acquired by speakers for whom it was not their first language, particularly when this dispersion involved formal learning of English in educational con…
Linguistics (15 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (7 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works)