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Peer reviewedMerkestein, Aria – World Englishes, 1998
Argues that instruments normally applied to the analysis of discourse, and that originate in the Western tradition of analyzing language, must be used with extreme caution in analyzing new varieties of English. To substantiate this claim, the article uses as an example the recent work on the emergence of Batswana English. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
