The Variability of Current World Englishes (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL], 87.1) - Hardcover

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9783110339673: The Variability of Current World Englishes (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL], 87.1)
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ISBN 10: 3110339676 ISBN 13: 9783110339673
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations. The book's chapters supply descriptions of Jamaican English in Toronto, English as an L2 in a South African mining township, Chinese and English contact in Singapore, unexpected, emergent variants in Canadian English, and innovations in the English of West Virginia. Further, the book offers some perspective on internet English as well as on abiding uniformities in the lexicon and grammar of standard varieties. In the analyses of this heterogeneous growth such considerations as speakers' sociolinguistic profiles, phonological, morpho-syntactic, and lexical variables, frequencies, and typological patterns provide ample insight in the current status of English both in oral and electronic communities. The opening chapter presents a theoretical framework that argues for linguistic typology as conceptually resourceful in accommodating techniques of analysis and in distinguishing the wide arrays of English found throughout the globe. One clear function for Faces of English is that of a catalyst: to spur studies of diversities in English (and in other languages), to suggest approaches to adapt, to invite counterargument and developments in analysis.

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Eugene Green and Charles F. Meyer, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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Verlag
De Gruyter Mouton
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3110339676
ISBN 13 
9783110339673
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
295
Herausgeber
Green Eugene, Meyer Charles F.
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