[Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?

[Carmela Chateau]

Could this be the ELF (English as a lingua franca) as defined by Anna 
Mauranen, Barbara Seidlhofer, and others?
See a discussion here:
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/iatefl2004/visnja_16_conf.shtml#plenary
And Sylviane Granger is working on varieties of learner English which 
might also be of interest.

And would "courseworks" (see Eric Atwell's remark, below) be an example 
of  Euro English, or of language change?
I moved from England to France almost thirty years ago, so I would have 
classed coursework as an uncountable noun in British English.
And I'm looking forward to Eric's results on the domain .fr
Carmela Chateau

Eric Atwell wrote:

> My intuition is that, in addition to some "pan-european(except-UK)" 
> English terms,
> as suggested by Harold, there will be national variants of English 
> with local L1-inspired vocabulary and usages.
>
> I have just set my final-year undergrad Computing class a coursework 
> challenge, "Finding English terms specific to a domain on the World 
> Wide Web",
> where "domain" here means a national top-level domain like .DE or .UK
> - the 85 students in the class each have to study WWW-English in a 
> different
> country, and many have signed up for European nations.
> So, I should have some answers for you after 24 March when the 
> courseworks have to be submitted!
>
> Eric Atwell, School of Computing, Leeds University
>
> PS CORPORA readers are welcome to send me advice or tips to pass on to
> my students, esp on appropriate technologies  they can use (so they
> dont have to write the programs themselves!) - the coursework outline is
>
> http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/db32cw.doc
>
>
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Parveen Lallmamode wrote:
>
>> Has anyone of you here ever heard of a 'Standard European English'? 
>> If yes:
>>
>> - What are its characteristics?
>> - Which researcher added that 'English' to the World Englishes?
>> - How does it differ from the 'Standard British English'?
>> - Where can I read more about it?
>>
>> Thanking you all in advance.
>