10 Questions
What is the main reason for including Expanding Circle varieties among the Englishes of Asia?
To demonstrate the increasing importance of English in all contexts today.
What distinguishes Expanding Circle varieties from Inner or Outer Circle varieties?
Their common features displayed by users.
What term is used in the chapter to describe a certain form of Japanese English (JE)?
Similect
Which aspects are covered before discourse and pragmatic features in the chapter?
Phonological and morpho-syntactic features.
How does the chapter suggest Japanese interlocutors will bring their form of JE to global interactions?
With individual variation.
What are some of the areas that past work on Japanese English (JE) has focused on?
Phonological features, syntactic features, and lexical development
What did Thompson (2001) observe about the front vowel /a/ in Japanese English (JE)?
It is often substituted for five other vowels in JE.
What did Nihalani (2010) claim regarding the substitution of /a/ for other vowels in Japanese English?
The phonetic distinctness between the two vowels is lost.
Where were the sources of spoken data gathered for phonology and morphosyntax of Japanese English?
Both inside and outside Japan
What did Yamaguchi and Chiew (2020) demonstrate about Japanese English (JE) speakers in their corpus?
They differentiate between sounds, avoiding conflation.
Explore concrete examples of features of Japanese English (JE) and the increasing importance of English in various contexts today. The text also discusses the research focus on international use of English in recent years.
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