Format:
1 online resource (458 pages)
ISBN:
9789027289063
Series Statement:
Varieties of English Around the World Ser v.G40
Content:
Literature in non-canonical Englishes is infused with distinct culture, history, and politics. Should the creative writer adhere strictly to traditional English literary norms, language use would seem artificial and unconvincing, and social nuances would be lost. This paper tests this hypothesis with African-American English (AAE) literature. One passage was scanned for AAE features, and examined for social nuances these features convey. European-American and African-American respondents received passages as written and with AAE features deleted, with follow-up questionnaires. Results indicate connections made between language used in the text and identification of character background and desire to read more by this author. The function of non-traditional linguistic elements is demonstrated, supporting their inclusion in pedagogical texts.
Content:
World Englishes - Problems, Properties and Prospects -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References -- 1. Focus on -- Deracialising the GOOSE vowel in South African English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Middle class formation -- 3. Popular awareness of accelerated language change -- 4. Sociolinguistic frameworks for analysing class formation -- 5. The sample and methods -- 6. Comparing GOOSE in four groups of young middle class female speech -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Codifying Ghanaian English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The English language in Ghana -- 3. Review of relevant literature -- 4. Codification of Ghanaian English: Problems and challenges -- 5. Codifying Ghanaian English: Prospects -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. ICE Jamaica: Potential and limitations of corpus-based sociolinguistics -- 3. "Too much person?" Person / people as a sociolinguistic marker in Jamaican English -- 4. Main-clause order in wh-questions -- 5. The modals of obligation and necessity -- 6. Contractions -- 7. "New quotatives" in Jamaican English and the globalisation of vernacular features -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Material and selection of speakers -- 2.2 Analysis procedures -- 3. Results and discussion -- 3.1 Overall degree of rhoticity -- 3.2 Inter- and intra-speaker variation -- 3.3 Factors influencing rhoticity -- 3.4 Individual factors -- 3.4.1 Text category -- 3.4.2 Preceding vowel -- 3.4.3 Following consonant -- 3.4.4 Position and following pause -- 3.4.5 Text frequency of tokens -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad -- 1. Introduction.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027249005
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789027249005
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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