The Inner Circle vs. the Outer Circle or British English vs. American English
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چکیده
In this paper, the use of two modals (can and may) in four varieties of English (British, India, Philippines, and USA) was compared and the characteristics of each variety were statistically analyzed. After all the sample sentences were extracted from each component of the ICE corpus, a total of twenty linguistic factors were encoded. Then, the collected data were statistically analyzed with R. Through the analysis, the following facts were observed: (i) India and Philippine speakers used can more frequently than natives, (ii) Three linguistic factors interacted with CORPUS, and (iii) The distinctions between American and British were more influential than those of the Inner Circle vs. the Outer Circle.
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