The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction (Studies in English Language) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521883962 ISBN 13: 9780521883962

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Documents the linguistic properties of lesser-known varieties of English, showing their relevance for language spread and change.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Daniel Schreier is Professor of English at the University of Zurich. He has taught and lectured in New Zealand, Germany and in the USA. His previous publications include Isolation and Language Change (2003), Consonant Change in English Worldwide (2005) and St Helenian English (2008).

Peter Trudgill is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Agder. He has carried out research on dialects of English, Norwegian, Greek, Albanian and Spanish and has written and edited more than thirty books on sociolinguistics and dialectology including Sociolinguistic Variation and Change (2002), A Glossary of Sociolinguistics (2003) and New Dialect Formation (2004).

Edgar W. Schneider is Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg. He is the editor of the scholarly journal English World-Wide and its associated book series, Varieties of English around the World. His previous publications include Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data (1996) and Postcolonial English (Cambridge, 2007).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521883962
• ISBN 13: 9780521883962
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 388
• Herausgeber: Schreier Daniel, Trudgill Peter, Schneider Edgar W.
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