The Variability of Current World Englishes / / ed. by Eugene Green, Charles F. Meyer.
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 minin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
87.1 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Table of 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