Interlanguage

Interlanguage correlates with X-ized English at a microlevel of individual usage. It is a reduced language lacking vitality and historicity. Interlanguage is a variety used by the foreign language learner who has incompletely learned the language, for example English.

Foreigner Talk

Foreigner Talk is a simplified form of the language used to communicate with foreigners with a minimal, if any, knowledge of the language.

On the global scale it is easy to see that the enormous growth and spread in the use of English led to an immense proliferation of different “Englishes” on the one hand, but on the other hand it retains the importance and unity of the English language.

Colloquium topic: WORLD ENGLISHES (in two weeks)

World Englishes

Lingua Franca

British English

The Queen’s English

American English

African American Vernacular English

Cockney English

Australian English

Scottish English

South African English

Aboriginal English

Canadian English

Caribbean Englsih

Jamaican English

New Zealand English

English in India

Singlish (English-based Creole language in Singapore)

Swinglish (English in Sweden)

Newcastle English (Geordie)

Valspeak

Engrish (English in East Asian countries)

Hong Kong English

Japanese English (Janglish or Japlish)