World Englishes

Critical Concepts in Linguistics

The main aim of this paper is to examine some of these myths and to try to reveal
the realities behind them. I argue that as long as the myths are accepted as
givens there can be no real progress in the study of the New Varieties. I will
explore the myths in the context of IndE but the arguments provided apply to all
the New Varieties. The myths I will deal with are: 1 IndE is a "non-native" variety
of English. 2 IndE has no standards. 3 IndE lacks creativity. 4 IndE is the
language of a small ...