세계영어 분류를 위한 새로운 모델 "영어 피라미드"

• 영문명: The English Pyramid : A New Model for World Englishes
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: 김명숙(Kim Myungsook)
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제19호, 21~35쪽, 전체 15쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.06.01

영문 초록

English is now spoken by about one billion people. Among them, there are a bit little more speakers as a second than a first language and by far more speakers as a very important foreign language than the two combined. The new English speakers aren't just passively emulating the world standard English, but they're shaping it, producing various local varieties with their own unique characteristics. This paper reviews four models to classify Englishes in the world, and suggests a new model of the English pyramid representing the hierarchical structure of Englishes depending on their diversity, uniformity, and even economic status. This model assumes the variety of Englishes occupying the top portion of the English pyramid is Network English which leads the public opinion not only in the English speaking countries but also throughout the whole world. The other varieties of English are consecutively English as a mother tongue, English as a second language, and finally English as a foreign language in the order of the top to the bottom of the pyramid. Korean-English, a variety of Eng]ish in Korea, is located in the bottom of the pyramid, has many diverse features in vocabulary and pronunciation, and is in the status of economic loss because people spend a lot of money to learn Network English, the one in the rooftop of the pyramid. In the pyramid model, it is assumed that the higher a certain variety of English is situated in the hierarchy, the more uniformity, the less diversity, and the more money earned it has.

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Abstract

1. 서론

2. 기존의 세계영어 분류모델들

3. The English Pyramid

4. 결론

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