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International Intelligibility in World Englishes: Focusing on Idiomatic Expressions

By Yoshikawa Hiroshi.

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english
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2017-08-07 07:01:42
Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Диалекты и вар

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// Intercultural Communication Studies. XVII: 4. 2008. P.219-226.There are many new English varieties taking root in different cultures in the world. People now use their own English as a tool of international communication. The issue of international intelligibility has to be discussed from the viewpoint of an international perspective. For the purposes of teaching English to Japanese who use English as a foreign language, the idiomatic expressions of traditional Englishes and newborn English varieties are interesting, but pragmatically difficult to understand and use. Some approach to ease the difficulty with pragmatic usage of the idiomatic expressions should be investigated. This paper proposes a teaching and learning strategy to a semantic domain focusing on idiomatic expressions in order to secure an international intelligibility.

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