Adverbs have become the ragbag in grammar in which all uncategorized items are relegated. Over the years, there have been several studies (e.g., Biber et al., 1999; Halliday, 1994; Hasselgard, 2010; Huddleston & Pullum, 2002; Quirk et al., 1985; Sinclair, 1990) that looked into the syntactic and semantic functions of adverbs. This paper focuses on what Quirk et al. (1985) call ‘disjuncts’ (whic...

English is the only language available for global communication and is used by 1.5 billions of speakers. It is also known to have a large diversity of pronunciation due to the influence of speakers’ mother tongue, called accents. Our project aims at creating a global and speaker-basis map of English accents to be used in learning World Englishes as well as research studies of World Englishes [1...

Given the fact that one of important topics in modern sociolinguistics today is globalisation English (Mesthrie & Bhatt, 2008), aim present paper twofold. First, it seeks to discuss extent which spread around world has resulted emergence new linguistic varieties or World Englishes (Mourchid, 2019) and how “no longer single base authority, prestige normativity” 2008, p. 3). Second, also prov...

This study aimed at investigating the representation of World Englishes (WE) in English textbooks used elementary schools Indonesia. Two books for a sixth-graders were as data sources. qualitative approach and document analysis method to gather data. The collected then analyzed based on Braj Kachru's theory comprising inner, outer, expanding circles. eventually validated by experts field applie...

The aim of this study is to investigate which pronunciations of English are difficult or different from one’s first language, as well as to explore which factors are crucial for communication with people from other cultures when English is used as one of the World Englishes. Ninety-one undergraduate students (85 females and 6 males) from two different Korean universities participated in this st...