104 of Butterflies and Birds, of Dialects and Genres Essays in Honour of Philip Shaw

STOCKHOLM STUDIES IN ENGLISH 104 Of butterflies and birds, of dialects and genres Essays in honour of Philip Shaw Of butterflies and birds, of dialects and genres Essays in honour of Philip Shaw Edited by Nils-Lennart Johannesson, Gunnel Melchers, and Beyza Björkman ©N-L Johannesson, G Melchers, B Björkman, and Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis 2013 ISBN electronic version: 978-91-87235-37-5 ISBN printed version: 978-91-87235-34-4 ISSN 0346-6272 Printed in Sweden by US-AB, Stockholm 2013 Distributor: ACTA UNIVERSITATIS STOCKHOLMIENSIS Contents Preface ......................................................................................................... 11 Text and Genre Analysis ........................................................................... 15 Narratives of Nature in English and Swedish: Butterfly books and the case of Argynnis paphia ANNELIE ÄDEL & JOHN SWALES ...................................................... 17 Telling it Like it Is or Strategic Writing? A portrait of the economist writer TRINE DAHL ..................................................................................... 35 Move Analysis of Abstracts from a Diachronic Perspective: A case study PAUL GILLAERTS .............................................................................. 49 Investigating the Generic Structure of Mediation Processes MAURIZIO GOTTI .............................................................................. 61 Orrmulum: Genre membership and text organisation NILS-LENNART JOHANNESSON ......................................................... 77 English as a Second Language / English as a Lingua Franca / English for Academic Purposes ................................................................ 91 Vocabulary in Advanced L2 English Speech BRITT ERMAN & MARGARETA LEWIS ............................................... 93 Peer Assessment of Spoken Lingua Franca English in Tertiary Education in Sweden: Criterion-referenced versus norm- referenced assessment BEYZA BJÖRKMAN ......................................................................... 109 Master Level Writing in Engineering and Productive Vocabu- lary: What does measuring academic vocabulary levels tell us? MAGNUS GUSTAFSSON & HANS MALMSTRÖM ............................... 123 Philip Shaw’s Writing Expertise in Academic Discourse AKIKO OKAMURA ........................................................................... 141 Additional Reasons for the Correlation of Voice, Tense and Sentence Function DIANE PECORARI ............................................................................ 153 Dialects / Sociolinguistics ......................................................................... 169 Tourism and the Commodification of Language JOAN C. BEAL ................................................................................. 171 ‘Ridiculously Country’: The representation of Appalachian Eng- lish in the Deliverance screenplay PETER SUNDKVIST .......................................................................... 189 “I don’t sound like a Geordie!”: Phonological and morphosyn- tactic aspects of Carlisle English SANDRA JANSEN ............................................................................ 209 World Englishes ....................................................................................... 225 World Englishes, Globalisation, and Language Worlds KINGSLEY BOLTON ........................................................................ 227 The North Wind and the Sun: A classic text as data for World Englishes GUNNEL MELCHERS ....................................................................... 253 Of Birds and the Human Species – Communication in Migration Contexts: English in the Cameroonian migrant community in the Ruhr area CHRISTIANE MEIERKORD & BRIDGET FONKEU .............................. 271 The Emergence of a Standardizing Cameroon Francophone English Pronunciation in Cameroon AUGUSTIN SIMO BOBDA ................................................................. 289 Language and linguistics .......................................................................... 303 Tolkien and Lewis on Language in their Scholarly Work MARIA KUTEEVA ............................................................................ 305 Goddamn: From curse to byname MAGNUS LJUNG .............................................................................. 325 The Pragmatic Markers Look and Listen in a Cross-linguistic Perspective KARIN AIJMER & ANNA ELGEMARK ............................................... 333 Opposites Attract CHRISTINA ALM-ARVIUS ................................................................ 349 Non-correlative Commas between Subjects and Verbs in Nine- teenth-century Newspaper English ERIK SMITTERBERG ........................................................................ 367 List of contributors ........................................................................ 383 Preface This volume is a tribute to our friend and colleague Philip Shaw, Professor of English linguistics at the Department of English, Stockholm University, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Philip was born in England’s West Country and educated at the universities of Oxford, Reading (where he received his MA), and Newcastle upon Tyne, where he received his PhD in 1983 after defending his dissertation on The major derivatives from place-names in English and German. He joined our department as a Senior Lecturer in the year 2000 after holding academic positions in a number of countries (Thailand, Germany, England and Den- mark) and was promoted to Professor in 2005. For two years (2006–2008) he also worked part-time as a guest professor at the Unit for Language and Communication at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology. It soon became apparent that Philip was to be an invaluable asset to the department in every conceivable way. For one thing, he brought with him a rich experience from other universities and was already an active member of several international academic networks. He had carried out research and published widely in a variety of fields, such as phonetics, word formation, language for special purposes, second language acquisition, academic writing and World Englishes. Some of these fields were new to the department, and others were reinforced and stimulated, which has led to fruitful coopera- tion among colleagues. It was not long before Philip became instrumental in setting up research projects within the department as well as with other insti- tutions at Stockholm University and elsewhere. Philip is also a devoted and versatile teacher who has taught and devel- oped a great number of courses at every level of our department, from first- term language-proficiency classes to graduate seminars and lectures. These pedagogical skills also make him an excellent PhD supervisor. Being a PhD student can be very challenging at times; one goes through times of despair and other difficulties along the way. Philip’s enormous expertise, his gener- osity with invaluable advice and his time, his humility, his can-do attitude as well as his great sense of humor certainly make a PhD student’s life consid- erably easier. In our view, he is a role model for PhD students. He shows the importance of networking, of social competence and developing good scholarly judgment. And while doing so, he remembers to teach his PhD students how to become independent researchers. His ways are always polite and 11 nuanced. For all these reasons, it is a true privilege to be Philip’s PhD student. In addition to being an eminent linguist, Philip is—among other things—a devoted reader of fiction and passionately interested in birds, flowers, and butterflies. He is a convinced environmentalist and makes a point of always travelling by train if possible. The 22 contributions to this volume by friends and colleagues worldwide bear witness to Philip’s academic versatility as well as his interests beyond academia. The first paper, ‘Narratives of Nature in English and Swedish: Butterfly books and the case of Argynnis paphia’, a genre study by Annelie Ädel and John Swales, is illustrated by Philip devoting himself to one of his favourite activities. It is followed by four other genre analyses, based on very different texts: Trine Dahl, ‘Telling it Like it Is or Strategic Writing? A portrait of the economist writer’, Paul Gillaerts, ‘Move Analysis of Abstracts from a Diachronic Perspective: A case study’, Maurizio Gotti, ‘Investigating the Generic Structure of Mediation Processes’, and Nils-Lennart Johannes- son, ‘Orrmulum: Genre membership and text organisation’. The following five papers all relate to Philip’s work in the fields of Eng- lish as a Second Language (ESL), English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), and English for Academic Purposes (EAP). The ESL study by Britt Erman and Margareta Lewis is titled ‘Vocabulary in Advanced L2 English Speech’, and ELF is represented by Beyza Björkman’s ‘Peer Assessment of Spoken Lin- gua Franca English in Tertiary Education in Sweden: Criterion-referenced versus norm-referenced assessment’. The three following papers relate to Philip’s work on academic writing: Magnus Gustafsson & Hans Malmström, ‘Master Level Writing in Engineering and Productive Vocabulary: What does measuring academic vocabulary levels tell us?’, Akiko Okamura, ‘Phil- ip Shaw’s Writing Expertise in Academic Discourse’, and Diane Pecorari, ‘Additional Reasons for the Correlation of Voice, Tense and Sentence Func- tion’. The three papers to follow address issues

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