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Ta(l)king English Phonetics Across Frontiers
Author(s): Biljana Čubrović (Author, Editor), Tatjana Paunović (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 14 Sept. 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 245 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443813036
- ISBN-13: 9781443813037
Book Description
Highlighting some interesting and intriguing aspects of English phonetics and phonology from a variety of perspectives, this book brings up a number of empirical questions in order to emphasize the necessity of taking a very broad view of what spoken English means in today’s socio-cultural context. English has become a truly global means of communication, used as a first, second, or additional language by millions and millions of diverse speakers, in a multitude of different communicative contexts, so that the very notions of native and non-native seem to have changed profoundly, as have the notions of central/ peripheral and standard/ non-standard with regard to English varieties spoken around the globe. Therefore, today more than ever before, in studying English phonetics many small research steps need to be taken to provide diverse and broad empirical data from as many different standpoints as possible. This collection indeed looks at English phonetics from a wide spectrum of perspectives, including those of native or EFL speakers, language varieties, L2 language teaching and learning, as well as language contact, development, and change.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This collection of research papers indeed takes the study of English phonetics across frontiers, bringing together different phonetic perspectives and different practical and theoretical approaches to the attention of an inquisitive reader.[…] This volume aims at drawing attention to well-known phonetic questions which have gained new facets in today’s changed socio-cultural context of the 21st century. […] The kaleidoscopic picture this collection aims to paint emerges from the contributions addressing different aspects of English phonetics and phonology. Therefore, it offers valuable information to researchers in the fields of phonetics and phonology, but also in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and translation studies. […] Covering a wide range of topics, research questions and English varieties, this mosaic collection vividly illustrates the diversity and complexity of questions the multi-faceted field of English phonetics has grown to cover.”Dr. Boris Hlebec, Professor of English Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade”The present book […] makes the reader think once again over many intriguing and inspiring questions. Also, it highlights some areas for further studies, attracting researchers not only from the field of phonetics, but from the fields of psychology, general and applied linguistics, pragmatics, semantics, methodology, culture and others. […] This collection, bringing together researchers of different backgrounds, linguistic traditions and approaches, presents an important contribution not only to English phonetics, as it is marked in the title, but also to many other fields and disciplines, especially to general and applied linguistics.”Dr. Snežana Gudurić, Professor of Phonetics and Phonology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad
About the Author
Biljana Čubrović (PhD) is Assistant Professor in the English Department, University of Belgrade (Serbia). She is the author of The Phonological Structure of Recent French Loanwords in Contemporary English (2005) and A Workbook of English Phonology. Dr. Čubrović is Editor-in-Chief of the Philologia journal for the study of language, literature and culture, and Associate Editor of The Linguistics Journal. Tatjana Paunović (PhD) is Associate Professor in the English Department, University of Niš (Serbia). She authored English phonetics and phonology for Serbian EFL students (2007) and Phonetics and/ or Phonology? A Critical Review of the 20th century Phonological Theories (2003, in Serbian). She currently works on the Serbian Language and Social Changes project (Serbian Ministry of Science and Ecology).
