Winner of the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and
Linguistics Lexical Innovation in World Englishes contributes to
the investigation of World Englishes by offering insights into the
lexical developments of selected English varieties and their
cross-fertilization potential. Taking a theoretical and empirical
approach and focusing on neological formations, this book:
discusses and problematizes different categorizations of English
varieties and processes of word formation, considering the
expansion of English across the world; draws on authentic examples
taken from language corpora to gain a finer understanding of the
varieties' transformations and of their reciprocal influences from
a lexical perspective; aims to validate general considerations on
the lexical features of these varieties of English and test them
using corpora. Including eight empirical case studies, this
innovative text shows the importance of investigating lexical
developments to observe the evolution of a variety while arguing
for the need to go beyond a purely structuralist approach and to
include a broader discursive and sociological perspective. Lexical
Innovation in World Englishes is key reading for postgraduate
students and researchers in the fields of World Englishes and
language varieties.
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