2009/03/01 by Andrew Sewell · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Multilingual Education and Policy #Phonetics and Phonology Research #English as a lingua franca #World Englishes #Lingua franca #Linguistics #Pronunciation #Viewpoints #Phonology #Sociology #Varieties of English #Philosophy #Art
paper · doi:10.1017/s0266078409000066
openalex publication_date 2009/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
ABSTRACT Perspectives from both World Englishes (WE) and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) can assist in the description of Hong Kong English phonology. Mario Saraceni's article ( English Today 94) provides some useful insights into the current debates about English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). His discussion of the background to this debate identifies three viewpoints: a traditional ENL view with its adherence to native-speaker models; the WE (World Englishes) paradigm with its ‘pluralised and pluricentric view of English in the world’; and the emerging ELF position, with its rejection of native-speaker norms in favour of ‘endonormative realisations of lingua franca varieties’ (Alessa Cogo, English Today 95). However, Cogo believes that the second and third positions are not separate paradigms, and that ELF sits ‘comfortably within a WE framework’, as claimed by Jenkins (2007:17). In this article, I would like to show how the two positions can work together to inform pedagogy by exploring the possible options for English pronunciation models in Hong Kong.