In this paper, we study how to automatically tell different varieties of English apart on Twitter by taking samples from American (US), British (GB) and Australian (AU) English. We track cities and apply filters to generate ground-truth data. We perform expert evaluation to get a sense of the difficulty of the task. We then cast the problem as a classification task: given a tweet (or a set of t...

The purpose of this article is to explore recent research into World Englishes (henceforth WEs) and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF),1 focusing on its implications for TESOL, and the extent to which it is being taken into account by English language teachers, linguists, and second language acquisition researchers. After a brief introduction comparing the current situation with that of 15 years ...

Geography studies the world. Our knowledge of world, however, comes mostly from Anglophone sources. This makes in urgent need worlding – including multiple voices and languages around Introducing notion linguistic privilege, article establishes language as an important dimension epistemic struggle, alongside gender, race, class others. Its analysis finds greatest privilege most influential posi...

According to Gibbs (2006) “there is still insufficient attention paid to the exact ways that cultural beliefs shape both people’s understandings of their embodied experiences and the conceptual metaphors which arise from these experiences.” For example, the conceptual metaphor EMOTIONS ARE FLUIDS WITHIN THE BODY seems to underlie a wide variety of metaphorical expressions used by speakers from ...

This paper aims to explore the paradigm of Global Englishes through perceptions held towards it by university English teachers in Saudi Arabia. Due reasons, such as globalization and colonization, presence can be found all countries throughout world. Some countries, Arabia have not yet fully institutionalized language which places them expanding circle, where is currently seen pedagogically tau...