1st Edition
Intelligibility in World Englishes Theory and Application
By Cecil L. Nelson
Copyright 2011
152 Pages
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Routledge
166 Pages
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Routledge
152 Pages
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Routledge
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Intelligibility is the term most generally used to address the complex of criteria that describe, broadly, how useful someone’s English is when talking or writing to someone else. Set within the paradigm of world Englishes – which posits that the Englishes of the world may be seen as flexibly categorized into three Circles (Inner, Outer, Expanding) in terms of their historical... Read more
Foreword, Larry E. Smith
Preface
Acknowledgements
Ch. 1: "Understanding" and Intelligibility in World Englishes
Ch. 2: Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, Interpretability
Ch. 3: Hybridity, Creativity and Intelligibility in World Englishes
Ch. 4: Other Conceptualizations of Intelligibility
Ch. 5: Intelligibility in English Language Teaching
Ch. 6: Intelligibility and the On-Going Expansions of Englishes
Annotated Bibliography
Index
Biography
Cecil L. Nelson is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Indiana State University.
