Editors and world Englishes

Exploring (the interaction between) editors’ sociolinguistic profiles and the norm-providing sources they use for editing work

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ID11309160
AuthorsMelanie Ann Law (0000-0001-7525-3553, North-West University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume45
Issue1
Pages61-93
Publication date2024-02-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnglish World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0172-8865 • E-ISSN: 1569-9730
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/eww.23004.law
OpenAlexW4391563993
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited35

The impact of editorial intervention on the language of published written texts has been the topic of a handful of recent empirical investigations within the world Englishes paradigm. These studies have demonstrated that the linguistic changes that editors make to texts written in world Englishes contexts are not as conservative or consistent as previously assumed, with some scholars suggesting that the sociolinguistic profiles of such editors might account for the varying behaviours noted in the corpus-based investigations. In this article, I build on recent arguments for a more considered view of the impact of editorial intervention on the language of published written texts in world Englishes contexts by examining editors’ sociolinguistic profiles and the overt norms they draw on in the course of their work to explore how they orient their normative behaviour and how this may be related to the evolutionary development of their respective varieties

Linguistics · World Englishes · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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