Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses. 2017, 30

Special Issue: English as a Contact Language: Variation and Diffusion

Issue Editors: José A. Sánchez and Ignacio M. Palacios


Essays

Part I: Theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of English contact in World Englishes

Introduction: Gaining insights into English as a contact language and its diffusion — Palacios Martínez, Ignacio M.; Sánchez Fajardo, José Antonio

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in ESP contexts. Students’ attitudes towards non-native speech and analysis of teaching materials — Calvo-Benzies, Yolanda Joy

Rhoticity in Chinese English: An experimental investigation on the realization of the variant (r) in an Expanding Circle variety — Li, Zeyu; Kabak, Barış

Language contact in Gibraltar English: A pilot study with ICE-GBR — Loureiro-Porto, Lucía; Suárez-Gómez, Cristina

Contact-induced variation in clausal verb complementation: the case of REGRET in World Englishes — Romasanta, Raquel P.

Syntactic complexity and language contact: A corpus-based study of relative clauses in British English and Indian English — Tamaredo, Iván


Part II: Exploring trends and methodologies in the study of anglicized lexis

English lexical items in Egyptian Arabic. Code-switching or borrowing? — Kniaź, Małgorzata

How VIPs and IT-professionals behave in Russian. The use of loan abbreviations in Russian analytical composites — Tarasova, Elizaveta

Present-day Spanish fashion lexicon dresses up in English — Rodríguez Arrizabalaga, Beatriz

Analysis of the presence of Anglicisms in a Spanish internet forum: some terms from the fields of fashion, beauty and leisure — Luján García, Carmen

The influence of the English language on the description of cosmetic products — Tejedor Martínez, Cristina

Exploring the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching in a written corpus — González Cruz, María Isabel