The linguistic character of New Englishes 4

English as a Global Language by David Crystal

-Other domains-

New Words
-The symptoms of the disease manifested themselves ten days later.
-The prisoner was subjected to systematic torture.
-Notwithstanding the bad weather, the event was a great success.
-The newspaper gave prominence to his statement.
-You can cruise from Cairo to Aswan or vice versa.
-She is competent to teach Spanish.
-Nomenclature is a system of terms used in a specialized field.
-Phoneme is the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language.
-Linguistics is in my particular domain.
-Pragmatics is the study of the factors influencing a person’s choice of language.
-He lived in the Highlands as a constituency home.
-The singer surprised people in the street with a rendition of his new song.

Summary
Pragmatic and discoursal domains are also important in New Englishes. English is basically stress-based speech, which is having a regular rhythm of primary stresses. On the other hand, the majority of New Englishes is syllable-based speech, which is having a regular rhythm of syllables. Syllable-based speech cannot be ignored because it has widespread in Africa, South Asia, South-East Asia and the Caribbean. It has also caused problems when both speakers communicate. Individual words, grammatical patterns and lexical items can be misunderstood. Studies in this domain are limited. Attention should be paid more.