A4: Variation across Outer Circle Englishes
●New Englishes
Four defining criteria by Platt, Weber and Ho (1984)
•It has developed through the education system.
•It has developed in an area where a native variety of English was not the language spoken by most of the population.
•It is used for a range of functions among those who speak or write it in the region where it is used.
•It has become ‘localised’ or ‘nativised’ by adopting some language features of its own (e.g., sounds, intonation patterns, sentence structures, words, expressions).