The motivation for this volume was the editors' awareness of a Western dominance in
sociolinguistic theory-making. The incompatibility of several dominant sociolinguistic …

This paper provides an acoustic description of the vowels of Brunei English (BrunE). Ten
female BrunE speakers were recorded reading The North Wind and the Sun (NWS) …

This paper sets out to investigate the English complaint speech act in Brunei Darussalam, a
country in South East Asia where English is the second language. Based on a corpus of …

Customers expressing dissatisfaction onscreen is not uncommon. This is especially true for
a company with a mass following. Often, lodging a formal complaint may not yield an …

It has been argued that a non‐standard variety of English, Brunei English (BNE) is being
spoken in Brunei (Cane, 1993). In the following paper it is suggested that BNE is still at an …

This chapter discusses the development of sociolinguistic studies in Japan. The chapter
then, talks about the study of politeness and women's language in Japan. Japan's own …

English has been an important language of education in Brunei since the inception of public
education there but, as is often the case when a language becomes a second language …

This paper uses an insider-outsider approach to identify and analyse some syntactic, lexical
and discoursal features of English texts produced by Bruneians, in order to investigate how …

This article provides an overview of past and current studies on the grammar of Brunei
English with a focus on prominent features that distinguish it from standardised varieties of …

This chapter begins with a discussion of the distribution of loanwords in the Bruneian press,
which were described in the 2013 edition as having been from Malay and Arabic and are …