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‘New English’ words in international English dictionaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2003

Tony T. N. Hung
Tony T. N. Hung
Affiliation:
Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
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Abstract

How such words are–and might be–handled

The author argues that, with the development of English as a world language and the burgeoning of new varieties of English (‘New Englishes’, or NE's), and with the inclusion of more and more NE words in international English dictionaries, there is a need for systematic and principled solutions to the proper phonetic representation of these words, instead of arbitrarily imposing the same transcription conventions on them as for ‘Old’ varieties of English (‘Old Englishes’, or OE's).

Type
Original Articles
Information
English Today , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 2002 , pp. 29 - 34
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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