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The Variability of Current World Englishes / ed. by Eugene Green, Charles F. Meyer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 87.1Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (287 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110339673
  • 9783110394917
  • 9783110352108
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 400
LOC classification:
  • PE1074.7 .V375 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- 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 -- Diasporic mixing of World Englishes: the case of Jamaican Creole in Toronto -- System 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
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- 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 -- Diasporic mixing of World Englishes: the case of Jamaican Creole in Toronto -- System 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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