Generic Pronouns and Gender-Inclusive Language Reform in the English of Singapore and the Philippines

Autor/inn/en	Pauwels, Anne; Winter, Joanne
Titel	Generic Pronouns and Gender-Inclusive Language Reform in the English of Singapore and the Philippines
Quelle	In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 27 (2004) 2, S.50-62 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-0640
Schlagwörter	Language Usage; Language Planning; Form Classes (Languages); Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Language Variation; Trend Analysis; Computational Linguistics; Higher Education; Academic Discourse; Writing (Composition); Philippines; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachgebrauch; Sprachwechsel; Analytischer Sprachbau; Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Sprachenvielfalt; Trendanalyse; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Discourse; Diskurs; Schreibübung; Philippinen; Singapur
Abstract	The concurrent trends of globalisation and "indigenisation" affecting the English language (varieties) around the world pose some interesting questions for language planning and reform issues (e.g. Phillipson, 1992; Pennycook, 1994; Crystal, 1997). With this project we examine the impact of these competing trends on "corpus planning" relating to gender-inclusive language use in the Englishes of Singapore and the Philippines, categorised as "outer-circle" Englishes by Kachru (1992, 1997). In this paper we present some findings on aspects of gender-inclusive language reform based on an analysis of the student and academic texts in the Singapore and Philippine components of the International Corpus of English [ICE] . Education, particularly higher education, has been identified as a leading site of contact with and trajectories of change for gender-inclusive language reform. We focus in particular on one of the main features of gender-inclusive language reform: generic pronouns. The results of the ICE corpus analysis suggest that adoption of gender-inclusive and gender-neutral generic pronouns is not yet profiled in these "outer-circle" Englishes. Generic he remains the pervasive generic pronoun in the student and published academic writing in the Singapore English corpus. The Philippines data reveal a similar trend although there is some emergence of s/he forms as the preferred gender-inclusive alternative. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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