Format:
Online-Ressource (VIII, 287 S.)
ISBN:
9783110352108
Series Statement:
Topics in English linguistics 87,1
Content:
This book explores through fresh detail and approaches unanticipated, heterogeneous dispersions of the English language world-wide. Through data collection, comparative analysis, and typological study, the book's chapters capture patterns that now affect established dialects and shape those recently emerging. From classroom to mature design,thevolumesparks linguistic undertakings in the increasing complexities of communication. Eugene Green and Charles F. Meyer, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Content:
This book explores through fresh detail and approaches unanticipated, heterogeneous dispersions of the English language world-wide. Through data collection, comparative analysis, and typological study, the book's chapters capture patterns that now affect established dialects and shape those recently emerging. From classroom to mature design, the volume sparks linguistic undertakings in the increasing complexities of communication
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Foreword; Introduction; Part 1. Methodological issues in distinguishing varieties; New Englishes and the emergence of the unmarked; Methodological choices in language variation analysis; Globalisation and the transnational impact of non-standard varieties; The circle of English: an exploration of the "core" and "periphery" of world Englishes; Part 2. Studies of features in particular contexts; A robust, living substratum: contact and sociolinguistic factors in the evolution of a variety of Black English in Kimberley, South Africa; Got in Singapore English
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Diasporic mixing of World Englishes: the case of Jamaican Creole in TorontoSystem and society in the evolution of change: the view from Canada; A diachronic study of pseudo-titles and related appositives in the press reportage of British and American newspapers; The Diffusion of I need you to + infinitive in world Englishes; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110394917
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110352115
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110339673
Additional Edition:
Print version The Variability of Current World Englishes
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
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Sprachvariante
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110352108
URL:
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/308201
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