A research on the evaluation of Indian English (IE) speech by speakers of Indian English through the analysis of over 1000 Youtube comments. How these evaluations are shaped is investigated through...Show moreA research on the evaluation of Indian English (IE) speech by speakers of Indian English through the analysis of over 1000 Youtube comments. How these evaluations are shaped is investigated through an in-depth examination of the following factors: (1) Historical background of English in South Asia; (2) Current role of English in India; (3) The evolutionary linguistic perspective on group formation and use of language as a marker of group membership; (4) The perception of (presumed) non-native speakers (NNS) by speakers of Englishes that are (phonetically similar to) “global standards”, global ideologies of IE and how that interacts with the perception of IE speech by IE speakers.Show less
To produce a sentence, speakers must first prepare a preverbal message and then encode it linguistically. First a speaker has an intention to utter a communicative statement, which than has to...Show moreTo produce a sentence, speakers must first prepare a preverbal message and then encode it linguistically. First a speaker has an intention to utter a communicative statement, which than has to become a decision about what information to express (Levelt,1999). When all the syntactic properties, the lexical selection and phonological and phonetic encoding have been planned, the speaker can utter its intended statement. The aim of the present project is to investigate the preparation of utterances within particular discourse context, i.e. utterances which provide new information to the preceding context, defined here as informational focus and sentences with corrective focus.Show less
