Thank you for your announcemet of the International Conference of th
e Regional Varieties of English. This is the proper topic of the muturally
interdependent societies. Our society, Japan was isolated from the rest of
the world for a long time. Now we are the members of the global village.
The language which is spoken there is "English". We used to learn British E
nglish but now younger Japanese learn American English. Australia is the cl
osest English speaking society.
I enjoy logging in the server of the CobuildDirect Corpus to do rese
arch via Telnet from the computer in my office. English is used by a consta
ntly growing number of people all over the world. Sveral varieties of "Engl
ish" are identified. What variety of English should be spoken, used and wr
itten by non-native English speakers to communicate other people in other so
cieties?
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> Name: Prof. Yoshio Narisawa
> Affiliation: Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan
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> Mailing address: tenjinsawa 2-1-1, Izumikku, Sendai 981-31, Japan
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> E-mail: narisawa@izcc.tohoku-gakuin.ac.jp
> Phone: 011-81-22-375-1111 ext 357
> Fax: 011-81-2375-4040
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> I would like to present a paper.
> Title of paper, if any:
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> American Influence on Australian English: Reseach Based on CobuildDirect C
>orpus
Sincerely yours,
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Yoshio Narisawa
Department of Linguistic Science,
Faculty of Liberal Arts,
Tohoku Gakuin University
E-mail: narisawa@izcc.tohoku-gakuin.ac.jp
Tel: 011-81-22-375-1111 Ext: 357
Fax: 011-81-22-375-4040
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