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Umfang: 1 online resource (219 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-280-87973-4 , 9786613721044 , 90-272-7913-6

Serie: Varieties of English around the world. General series, v. 8

Inhalt: This collection represents an important contribution not only to creole linguistics but also to Caribbean studies and English dialectology. It contains eleven essays on the special development and present-day functions of English and Creole in the Caribbean, ranging from Central America to Guyana. Topics include the spread of English and Creole, Spanish-English contact, the reconstruction of early phonology, the semantics of syntactic markers, the impact of colonial language policies, language and class, and the speech of Rastafarians.

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record. , FOCUS ON THE CARIBBEAN; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; The spread of English in the Caribbean area; REFERENCES; The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean; Introduction; Language education policy; The legal system; The mass media; The political system; The Caribbean Lexicography Project; Solutions; Some general principles; The planning and development of Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles; The implementation of the use of Creole in official domains; Conclusion , TRANSLATION REFERENCES; On writing English-related Creoles in the Caribbean; 1. Introduction; 2. Language politics; 3. Aspects of creole writing systems; 4. Aspects of readability; 5. Conclusion; REFERENCES; Social class and the use of language: A case study of Jamaican children; REFERENCES; Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican Creole; REFERENCES; Etymology in Caribbean Creoles; REFERENCES; The structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English Creole; Introduction; The Bajan tense-aspect system; The semantic structure of the tense-aspect system of the Bajan verb , PROCESS versus FACT Extended PROCESS; PAST marking; Locative de; COMPLETIVE dun; Future and serial go; Conclusion; REFERENCES; Innovation in Jamaican Creole The speech of Rastafari; NOTES; REFERENCES; Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese creoles; 1. Introduction; 2. Interpreting the Durative Constructions; 3. On the origins of the durative constructions; 4. Conclusions; NOTES; REFERENCES; ADDENDA; Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in Jamaican; REFERENCES; English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America: sociolinguistic mirror images?; NOTES , REFERENCES ADDRESSES OF AUTHORS , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 90-272-4866-4

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: xiv, 512 p. : , ill.

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-282-15506-7 , 9786612155062 , 90-272-9294-9

Serie: Creole language library, v. 30

Inhalt: This volume in memory of Terry Crowley covers a wide range of languages: Australian, Oceanic, Pidgins and Creoles, and varieties of English. Part I, Linguistic Description and Typology, includes chapters on topics such as complex predicates and verb serialization, noun incorporation, possessive classifiers, diphthongs, accent patterns, modals in Australian English and directional terms in atoll-based languages. Part II, Historical Linguistics and Linguistic History, ranges from the reconstruction of Australian languages, to reflexes of Proto-Oceanic, to the lexicon of early Melanesian Pidgin. Part III, Language Development and Linguistic Applications, comprises studies of lexicography, language in education, and language endangerment and language revival, spanning the Pacific from South Australia and New Zealand to Melanesia and on to Colombia. The volume will whet the appetite of anyone interested in the latest linguistic research in this richly multilingual part of the globe.

Anmerkung: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Language Description, History and Development -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Terry Crowley 1953-2005 -- Introduction -- "Try look that yellow book": The legacy of Terry Crowley's work in Cape York Peninsula -- I. Language description and linguistic typology -- 1. Describing languages and ethnographic fieldwork -- 2. A desiderative complement construction in Warrwa -- 3. Noun incorporation in Rembarrnga discourse -- 4. A revised view of the verbal suffixes of Yugambeh-Bundjalung -- 5. Close and remote objects in a language with a single transitive suffix -- 6. Possessive classifier bila- in Raga reflects value in people -- 7. On the subject of subjects in Māori -- 8. Pointing at the lagoon: Directional terms inOceanic atoll-based languages -- 9. Does Hawaiian have diphthongs? And how can you tell? -- 10. Accent patterns for English loanwords in Samoan: A window on prosody -- 11. Syntactic properties of the definitive accent in Tongan -- 12. Tok Pisin ia-bracketing: Neither substrate nor syntax -- 13. On Papiamentu ku -- 14. "… and the blue bird /flju/ away": Yod insertion in Fiji English -- 15. Modal wars: Some ascendant semi-modals in Australian English -- 16. Complex predication and the coverb construction -- 17. Verb serialisation and incipient grammaticalisation in Abma -- 18. The demise of serial verbs in South Efate -- II. Language history and historical linguistics -- 19. Nganyaywana revisited: Lessons from Terry Crowley's work on New England languages -- 20. Divergent regularity in word-initial truncation in the Arandic languages -- 21. Two kinds of locative construction in Oceanic languages: A robust distinction -- 22. The prenasalised trills of Manus -- 23. Noun articles in Torres and Banks languages: Conservation and innovation. , 24. The reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *na in Unua -- 25. Proto who utilised turmeric, and how? -- 26. On the lexicon of Early Melanesian Pidgin -- III. Language developmentandlinguistic applications -- 27. Structure, style and content in dictionary entries for an Oceanic language -- 28. The Fijian dictionary experience -- 29. Lexicography for your friends -- 30. Language-in-education in New Zealand: Policies and practices -- 31. Language-in-education policy in the context of languagedeath: Conflicts in policy and practice in Colombia -- 32. The Crowley corrective: An alternative voice for language endangerment -- 33. Language sizes in Melanesia -- 34. Funeral liturgy as a strategy for language revival -- References -- Index -- The series Creole Language Library. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 90-272-5252-1

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 online resource (390 p.)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-282-89576-1 , 9786612895760 , 90-272-8778-3

Serie: Varieties of English around the world ; G41

Inhalt: This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central to the volume is the question of how genuine written representations are. Here the emphasis is on the techniques and methodology which can be employed when analysing documents. The vernacular styles found in written documents and the use of these as a window on earlier spoken modes of different varieties represent a focal concern of the book. Studies of language in literature, which were offered in the past, have been revisited and their findings reassessed in the light of recent advances in variationist linguistics.

Anmerkung: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Linguistic evaluation of earlier texts / Raymond Hickey -- Non-standard language in earlier English / Claudia Claridge & Merja Kytö -- Assessing non-standard writing in lexicography / Philip Durkin -- Northern English in writing / Katie Wales -- Southern English in writing / Gunnel Melchers -- The distinctiveness of Scots: Perceptions and reality / J. Derrick McClure -- Irish English in early modern drama: The birth of a linguistic stereotype / Raymond Hickey -- [H]ushed and lulled full chimes for pushed and pulled: Writing Ulster English / Kevin McCafferty -- Dialect literature and English in the USA: Standardization and national linguistic identity / Lisa Cohen Minnick -- Written sources for Canadian English: Phonetic reconstruction and the low-back vowel merger / Stefan Dollinger -- Earlier Caribbean English and creole in writing / Bettina Migge & Susanne Mühleisen -- Earliest St Helenian English in writing: evidence from the St Helena consultations (1682-1723) / Daniel Schreier & Laura Wright -- An abundant harvest to the philologer?: Jeremiah Goldswain, Thomas Shone and nineteenth-century South African English / Lucia Siebers -- A peculiar language: Linguistic evidence for early Australian English / Kate Burridge -- Describing and complaining :Written evidence of early New Zealand English pronunciation / Elizabeth Gordon. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 90-272-4901-6

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 378 S. 8"

Anmerkung: Leiden, Diss., 1983

Sprache: Unbestimmte Sprache

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Umfang: 378 S.

Anmerkung: EST: Neger-englisches Wörter-Buch. - Leiden, Rijksuniv., Diss. , Leiden, Univ., Diss., 1983

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Sranangtongo ; Wörterbuch ; Deutsch ; Hochschulschrift

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Umfang: xv, 295 p. : , ill.

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9786613234490 , 90-272-8708-2 , 1-283-23449-1

Serie: Studies in corpus linguistics, v. 45

Inhalt: The relationship between dictionaries and computers goes back around 50 years. But for most of that period, technology's main contributions were to facilitate the capture and manipulation of dictionary text, and to provide lexicographers with greatly improved linguistic evidence. Working with computers and corpora had become routine by the mid-1990s, but there was no real sense of lexicography being automated. In this article we review developments in the period since 1997, showing how some of the key lexicographic tasks are beginning to be transferred, to a significant degree, from humans to machines. A recurrent theme is that automation not only saves effort but often leads to a more reliable and systematic description of a language. We close by speculating on how this process will develop in years to come.

Anmerkung: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , A Taste for Corpora -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Putting corpora to good uses -- References -- Frequency, corpora and language learning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A brief glance at history -- 2.1 Early frequency studies -- 2.2 The rejection of frequency -- 2.3 The computer age and the revival of frequency studies -- 2.4 Co-frequency, collocation -- 3. Recent progress in frequency studies relevant to language learning -- 3.1 How frequency is important for English Language Teaching (ELT) -- 3.2 Word frequency associated with language varieties -- 3.3 A more considered view -- 3.4 Frequency of word combinations: Is it more important than frequency of individual words? -- 3.5 Grammatical frequency -- 3.6 Phraseology and the interaction of lexis and grammar -- 4. New directions in applied linguistics favourable to frequency -- 4.1 Theoretical positions favouring frequency -- 4.2 Frequency effects in language change -- 4.3 Frequency effects in language acquisition -- 5. Challenges and possible solutions -- 5.1 Challenge I: Bringing together corpus linguistic and cognitive linguistic approaches -- 5.2 Challenge II: Corpora do not always match learners' needs -- 6. Conclusion: With words of comfort -- References -- Learner corpora and contrastive interlanguage analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interlanguage studies before computer corpora -- 3. Learner computer corpora -- 4. Contrastive interlanguage analysis -- 5. Some significant findings of CIA -- 6. From CIA to the integrated contrastive model -- 7. Case studies -- 7.1 Quite -- 7.2 I would say -- 7.3 A Norwegian perspective on seem -- 8. Some challenges -- 9. The revolution continues -- References -- Corpora used in examples and case studies. , The use of small corpora for tracing the development of academic literacies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The development of academic literacies in an EFL context -- 3. The academic writing course -- 4. The study -- 4.1 Texts included in the study -- 4.2 Methods and procedures -- 5. Analysis and discussion -- 5.1 Reporting verbs -- 5.2 Evaluative lexical resources -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Revisiting apprentice texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Forms and models -- 2.1 Which forms? -- 2.2 Which models? -- 3. Investigating lexical bundles in apprentice and expert texts -- 3.1 Data -- 3.2 Method -- 3.3 Findings: 4-word lexical bundles -- 3.4 Findings: 3-word lexical bundles -- 4. From description to application -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Appendices -- Automatic error tagging of spelling mistakes in learner corpora -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Experiment -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Data mining with learner corpora -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classifiers -- 2.1 Types of classifiers -- 2.2 Feature selection and parameter tuning -- 2.3 Cross-validation -- 3. Previous research -- 3.1 Which classifier is best? -- 3.2 Previous studies on L1 detection -- 4. Method -- 5. Results -- 6. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Appendix 1. Types of classifiers -- Learners and users - Who do we want corpus data from? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How are learner and L2 user corpora different? -- 3. How are learner and L2 user corpora similar? -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- References to corpora -- Learner knowledge of phrasal verbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The acquisition of phrasal verbs -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Target phrasal verbs -- 3.3 Receptive and productive measurement instruments -- 3.4 Biodata questionnaire -- 3.5 Procedure. , 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Phrasal verb frequency and knowledge -- 4.2 Individual differences factors in the acquisition of phrasal verbs -- 4.3 Exposure to target language inside and outside the classroom -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A. BNC phrasal verb frequency: Comparison of results -- Appendix B. Productive phrasal verb test -- Appendix C. Receptive phrasal verb test -- Appendix D. Biodata questionnaire -- Corpora and the new Englishes -- 1. The corpus-based documentation of the New Englishes: A brief historical survey -- 2. Current challenges: The web as a data source for the study of the new Englishes -- 3. The data: CCJ, a corpus of cyber-Jamaican English/Jamaican Creole -- 4. Anti-formality -- 5 The globalisation of vernacular features: A 'Black Atlantic' on the web? -- 6. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Towards a new generation of corpus-derived lexical resources for language learning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The gap between corpora and lexical knowledge -- 3. The role of some current constructs -- 4. The lexical knowledgebase -- 4.1 Hybrid N-grams -- 4.2 Relations among hybrid n-grams -- 5. Knowledge representation and access for users -- 6. An emergent langue -- References -- Automating the creation of dictionaries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Computers meet lexicography: From the 1960s to the 1990s -- 2.1 Year Zero: The COBUILD project -- 2.2 The 80s and 90s -- 3. From 1997 to the present -- 3.1 Corpus creation -- 3.2 Headword lists -- 3.3 Collocation and word sketches -- 3.4 Word sketches and the sketch engine since 2004 -- 3.5 Word sketches and the sketch engine in the NEID project -- 3.6 Labels -- 3.7 Examples -- 3.8 Tickbox lexicography (TBL) -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Addendum. Select list of publications by Sylviane Granger -- 1. Books -- 2. Articles -- Subject index -- Name index. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 90-272-0350-4

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: xv, 295 p. : , ill.

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9786613234490 , 90-272-8708-2 , 1-283-23449-1

Serie: Studies in corpus linguistics, v. 45

Inhalt: The relationship between dictionaries and computers goes back around 50 years. But for most of that period, technology's main contributions were to facilitate the capture and manipulation of dictionary text, and to provide lexicographers with greatly improved linguistic evidence. Working with computers and corpora had become routine by the mid-1990s, but there was no real sense of lexicography being automated. In this article we review developments in the period since 1997, showing how some of the key lexicographic tasks are beginning to be transferred, to a significant degree, from humans to machines. A recurrent theme is that automation not only saves effort but often leads to a more reliable and systematic description of a language. We close by speculating on how this process will develop in years to come.

Anmerkung: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , A Taste for Corpora -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Putting corpora to good uses -- References -- Frequency, corpora and language learning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A brief glance at history -- 2.1 Early frequency studies -- 2.2 The rejection of frequency -- 2.3 The computer age and the revival of frequency studies -- 2.4 Co-frequency, collocation -- 3. Recent progress in frequency studies relevant to language learning -- 3.1 How frequency is important for English Language Teaching (ELT) -- 3.2 Word frequency associated with language varieties -- 3.3 A more considered view -- 3.4 Frequency of word combinations: Is it more important than frequency of individual words? -- 3.5 Grammatical frequency -- 3.6 Phraseology and the interaction of lexis and grammar -- 4. New directions in applied linguistics favourable to frequency -- 4.1 Theoretical positions favouring frequency -- 4.2 Frequency effects in language change -- 4.3 Frequency effects in language acquisition -- 5. Challenges and possible solutions -- 5.1 Challenge I: Bringing together corpus linguistic and cognitive linguistic approaches -- 5.2 Challenge II: Corpora do not always match learners' needs -- 6. Conclusion: With words of comfort -- References -- Learner corpora and contrastive interlanguage analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interlanguage studies before computer corpora -- 3. Learner computer corpora -- 4. Contrastive interlanguage analysis -- 5. Some significant findings of CIA -- 6. From CIA to the integrated contrastive model -- 7. Case studies -- 7.1 Quite -- 7.2 I would say -- 7.3 A Norwegian perspective on seem -- 8. Some challenges -- 9. The revolution continues -- References -- Corpora used in examples and case studies. , The use of small corpora for tracing the development of academic literacies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The development of academic literacies in an EFL context -- 3. The academic writing course -- 4. The study -- 4.1 Texts included in the study -- 4.2 Methods and procedures -- 5. Analysis and discussion -- 5.1 Reporting verbs -- 5.2 Evaluative lexical resources -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Revisiting apprentice texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Forms and models -- 2.1 Which forms? -- 2.2 Which models? -- 3. Investigating lexical bundles in apprentice and expert texts -- 3.1 Data -- 3.2 Method -- 3.3 Findings: 4-word lexical bundles -- 3.4 Findings: 3-word lexical bundles -- 4. From description to application -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Appendices -- Automatic error tagging of spelling mistakes in learner corpora -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Experiment -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Data mining with learner corpora -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classifiers -- 2.1 Types of classifiers -- 2.2 Feature selection and parameter tuning -- 2.3 Cross-validation -- 3. Previous research -- 3.1 Which classifier is best? -- 3.2 Previous studies on L1 detection -- 4. Method -- 5. Results -- 6. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Appendix 1. Types of classifiers -- Learners and users - Who do we want corpus data from? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How are learner and L2 user corpora different? -- 3. How are learner and L2 user corpora similar? -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- References to corpora -- Learner knowledge of phrasal verbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The acquisition of phrasal verbs -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Target phrasal verbs -- 3.3 Receptive and productive measurement instruments -- 3.4 Biodata questionnaire -- 3.5 Procedure. , 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Phrasal verb frequency and knowledge -- 4.2 Individual differences factors in the acquisition of phrasal verbs -- 4.3 Exposure to target language inside and outside the classroom -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A. BNC phrasal verb frequency: Comparison of results -- Appendix B. Productive phrasal verb test -- Appendix C. Receptive phrasal verb test -- Appendix D. Biodata questionnaire -- Corpora and the new Englishes -- 1. The corpus-based documentation of the New Englishes: A brief historical survey -- 2. Current challenges: The web as a data source for the study of the new Englishes -- 3. The data: CCJ, a corpus of cyber-Jamaican English/Jamaican Creole -- 4. Anti-formality -- 5 The globalisation of vernacular features: A 'Black Atlantic' on the web? -- 6. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Towards a new generation of corpus-derived lexical resources for language learning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The gap between corpora and lexical knowledge -- 3. The role of some current constructs -- 4. The lexical knowledgebase -- 4.1 Hybrid N-grams -- 4.2 Relations among hybrid n-grams -- 5. Knowledge representation and access for users -- 6. An emergent langue -- References -- Automating the creation of dictionaries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Computers meet lexicography: From the 1960s to the 1990s -- 2.1 Year Zero: The COBUILD project -- 2.2 The 80s and 90s -- 3. From 1997 to the present -- 3.1 Corpus creation -- 3.2 Headword lists -- 3.3 Collocation and word sketches -- 3.4 Word sketches and the sketch engine since 2004 -- 3.5 Word sketches and the sketch engine in the NEID project -- 3.6 Labels -- 3.7 Examples -- 3.8 Tickbox lexicography (TBL) -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Addendum. Select list of publications by Sylviane Granger -- 1. Books -- 2. Articles -- Subject index -- Name index. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 90-272-0350-4

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 online resource (365 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-283-35838-7 , 9786613358387 , 90-272-7576-9

Inhalt: The two volumes of Englishes around the World present high-quality original research papers written in honour of Manfred Görlach, founder and editor of the journal English World-Wide and the book series Varieties of English Around the World. The papers thematically focus on the field that Manfred Görlach has helped to build and shape. Volume 2 of Englishes Around the World presents studies of so-called "New Englishes", post-colonial varieties as spoken predominantly in countries of the former British Empire. There are five contributions on the Caribbean (covering Jamaica, Guyana, and Trinidad), five articles on Africa (South Africa, East Africa, and Nigeria), six studies of English in Asian countries (Japan, the Philippines, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea), and six papers on Australia and New Zealand. Topics covered range from sociohistorical causes and processes, the nativization of English in different countries, or the expression of individual identities by means of the English language through structural descriptions to sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, lexicographic, pragmatic, stylistic, and other matters. The articles in the respective sections are written by D.R. Craig, L.M. Haynes, P.L. Patrick, K. Shields-Brodber, and L. Winer; A Banjo, V. de Klerk, R. Mesthrie, J. Schmied, and P. Silva; R.W. Bailey, R. Begum and T. Kandiah, A. Gonzalez, R.R. Mehrotra, P. Mühlhäusler, and M. Newbrook; L. Bauer, S. Butler, M. Clyne, P. Peters and A. Delbridge, G. Tulloch, and G.W. Turner.

Anmerkung: ENGLISHES AROUND THE WORLD 2; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOR MANFRED GÖRLACH ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY; INTRODUCTION; Acknowledgments; THE ENGLISH OF WEST INDIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; 1. Concern about language; 2. Writing as data; 3. Results of an error analysis; 3.1. Word-totals, paragraphs, cancellations; 3.2. Spelling; 3.3. Punctuation and capitalisation; 3.4. Inflections, auxiliaries, modais; 3.5. Idiom; 3.6. Omissions; 3.7. Consistency of NP/VP relationships; 3.8. Lexical choices: Inclusion, exclusion and congruence in meaning , 4. Implications for the language programme References; ONE PEOPLE, ONE NATION, ONE DESTINY: RACE, ETHNICITY AND GUYANESE SOCIOLINGUISTIC IDENTITY; 1. Wherefore Guyana; 2. One people, one nation: Race and ethnicity; 2.1. Race; 2.2. Ethnicity; 3. One destiny: Guyanese sociolinguistic identity; 3.1. The components; 3.2. Attitudes and behaviors; 3.3. The results of interaction and change; References; STYLE AND REGISTER IN JAMAICAN PATWA; 1. Introduction; 2. Internal varieties in creole studies; 3. Speaky-Spoky: a creole style; 4. Rasta Talk: a creole register , 5. Creole internal varieties: common characteristics of functional codes References; REQUIEM FOR ENGLISH IN AN ""ENGLISH-SPEAKING"" COMMUNITY: THE CASE OF JAMAICA; 1. Introduction; 2. The historical evolution of the roles of English and Creole in Jamaica; 2.1. The tradition of English as sovereign in colonial and early post-colonial Jamaica; 2.2. Independence and the evolution of public/formal functions for Jamaican Creole; 3. The fate of English in contemporary Jamaica; 4. Prognosis for English; References; SIX VERNACULAR TEXTS FROM TRINIDAD, 1838-1851 , 1. ""The Sorrows of Kitty""-""Spectator"". (Trinidad Standard, 1 February 1839, p. 3); 2. ""Look here, Sambo""-Anonymous. (Trinidad Standard, 13 September 1839, p. 2); 3. ""New Government Buildings""-""Eavesdropper"". (Port of Spain Gazette, 8 November 1844, p. 3); 4. ""Down de Coste""-""Quasshe"". (Trinidad Spectator, 31 March 1847, p. 2); 5. ""Tode genieman wha rite""-""George Hill"", (The Trinidad Spectator and Commercial Gazetteer, 8 January 1848, p. 2); 6. ""Drama of a certain day in life""-Anonymous. (The Trinidadian, 7 May 1851, p. 3); References , ASPECTS OF THE SYNTAX OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH 1. Introduction; 2. Varieties within varieties; 3. Reflexives and reciprocals; 4. The modal will; 4.1. A syntactic explanation; 4.2. A phonological explanation; 5. Conclusion; References; ENCOUNTERS WITH ENGLISH OVER THREE GENERATIONS IN A XHOSA FAMILY: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?; 1. Introduction; 2. The background; 2. 1 The sociolinguistic context; 2.2. The historical context; 2.3. The local context; 3. The Xhosa informants; 3.1. The grandmother; 3.1.1. Personal history; 3.1.2, Grammatical features; 3.2. The mother; 3.2.1. Personal history; 3.2.2. Grammatical features

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 90-272-4877-X

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 1-55619-716-0

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 online resource (365 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-283-35838-7 , 9786613358387 , 90-272-7576-9

Inhalt: The two volumes of Englishes around the World present high-quality original research papers written in honour of Manfred Görlach, founder and editor of the journal English World-Wide and the book series Varieties of English Around the World. The papers thematically focus on the field that Manfred Görlach has helped to build and shape. Volume 2 of Englishes Around the World presents studies of so-called "New Englishes", post-colonial varieties as spoken predominantly in countries of the former British Empire. There are five contributions on the Caribbean (covering Jamaica, Guyana, and Trinidad), five articles on Africa (South Africa, East Africa, and Nigeria), six studies of English in Asian countries (Japan, the Philippines, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea), and six papers on Australia and New Zealand. Topics covered range from sociohistorical causes and processes, the nativization of English in different countries, or the expression of individual identities by means of the English language through structural descriptions to sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, lexicographic, pragmatic, stylistic, and other matters. The articles in the respective sections are written by D.R. Craig, L.M. Haynes, P.L. Patrick, K. Shields-Brodber, and L. Winer; A Banjo, V. de Klerk, R. Mesthrie, J. Schmied, and P. Silva; R.W. Bailey, R. Begum and T. Kandiah, A. Gonzalez, R.R. Mehrotra, P. Mühlhäusler, and M. Newbrook; L. Bauer, S. Butler, M. Clyne, P. Peters and A. Delbridge, G. Tulloch, and G.W. Turner.

Anmerkung: ENGLISHES AROUND THE WORLD 2; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOR MANFRED GÖRLACH ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY; INTRODUCTION; Acknowledgments; THE ENGLISH OF WEST INDIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; 1. Concern about language; 2. Writing as data; 3. Results of an error analysis; 3.1. Word-totals, paragraphs, cancellations; 3.2. Spelling; 3.3. Punctuation and capitalisation; 3.4. Inflections, auxiliaries, modais; 3.5. Idiom; 3.6. Omissions; 3.7. Consistency of NP/VP relationships; 3.8. Lexical choices: Inclusion, exclusion and congruence in meaning , 4. Implications for the language programme References; ONE PEOPLE, ONE NATION, ONE DESTINY: RACE, ETHNICITY AND GUYANESE SOCIOLINGUISTIC IDENTITY; 1. Wherefore Guyana; 2. One people, one nation: Race and ethnicity; 2.1. Race; 2.2. Ethnicity; 3. One destiny: Guyanese sociolinguistic identity; 3.1. The components; 3.2. Attitudes and behaviors; 3.3. The results of interaction and change; References; STYLE AND REGISTER IN JAMAICAN PATWA; 1. Introduction; 2. Internal varieties in creole studies; 3. Speaky-Spoky: a creole style; 4. Rasta Talk: a creole register , 5. Creole internal varieties: common characteristics of functional codes References; REQUIEM FOR ENGLISH IN AN ""ENGLISH-SPEAKING"" COMMUNITY: THE CASE OF JAMAICA; 1. Introduction; 2. The historical evolution of the roles of English and Creole in Jamaica; 2.1. The tradition of English as sovereign in colonial and early post-colonial Jamaica; 2.2. Independence and the evolution of public/formal functions for Jamaican Creole; 3. The fate of English in contemporary Jamaica; 4. Prognosis for English; References; SIX VERNACULAR TEXTS FROM TRINIDAD, 1838-1851 , 1. ""The Sorrows of Kitty""-""Spectator"". (Trinidad Standard, 1 February 1839, p. 3); 2. ""Look here, Sambo""-Anonymous. (Trinidad Standard, 13 September 1839, p. 2); 3. ""New Government Buildings""-""Eavesdropper"". (Port of Spain Gazette, 8 November 1844, p. 3); 4. ""Down de Coste""-""Quasshe"". (Trinidad Spectator, 31 March 1847, p. 2); 5. ""Tode genieman wha rite""-""George Hill"", (The Trinidad Spectator and Commercial Gazetteer, 8 January 1848, p. 2); 6. ""Drama of a certain day in life""-Anonymous. (The Trinidadian, 7 May 1851, p. 3); References , ASPECTS OF THE SYNTAX OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH 1. Introduction; 2. Varieties within varieties; 3. Reflexives and reciprocals; 4. The modal will; 4.1. A syntactic explanation; 4.2. A phonological explanation; 5. Conclusion; References; ENCOUNTERS WITH ENGLISH OVER THREE GENERATIONS IN A XHOSA FAMILY: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?; 1. Introduction; 2. The background; 2. 1 The sociolinguistic context; 2.2. The historical context; 2.3. The local context; 3. The Xhosa informants; 3.1. The grandmother; 3.1.1. Personal history; 3.1.2, Grammatical features; 3.2. The mother; 3.2.1. Personal history; 3.2.2. Grammatical features

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Sprache: Englisch