Laurie Bauer

An Introduction to International Varieties of English

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As an introductory text, it presupposes a minimum of previous knowledge, focusing on common traits rather than on individual varieties. It is informed by research on dialect mixing and includes exercises within each chapter and further reading references.

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Covering varieties of English spoken in Britain, the U.S.A., Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the Falkland Islands, this book shows how the major national varieties of English have developed and why similar causes have given rise to different effects in different parts of the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 143mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780748613373
• ISBN-10: 0748613374
• Artikelnr.: 21782147

Autorenporträt

Laurie Bauer is Professor of Linguistics at the Victoria University of Wellington. He is an Editor of the journal Word Structure.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 BACKGROUND NOTIONS
1.1 Accent, dialect, language and variety
1.2 Home and colony
1.3 Colonial lag
1.4 Dialect mixing
2 ENGLISH BECOMES A WORLD LANGUAGE
2.1 The spread of English
2.2 Models of English
2.3 English in Scotland and Ireland
3 VOCABULARY
3.1 Borrowing
3.2 Coining
3.3 The results
4 GRAMMAR
4.1 Morphology
4.2 Syntax
5 SPELLING
5.2 Lexical distributional differences
5.2 Variation in the system
6 PRONUNCIATION
6.1 Describing varieties of English
6.2 Input varieties
6.3 Influences from contact languages
6.4 Influences from other colonies
6.5 Influences from later immigrants
6.6 Influences from world English
6.7 Differences between varieties
7 THE REVENGE OF THE COLONISED
7.1 Vocabulary
7.2 Grammar
7.3 Pronunciation
8 BECOMING INDEPENDENT
8.1 British Englishes
8.2 North American Englishes
8.3 Southern hemisphere Englishes
8.4 Discussion
8.5 The break-up of English?
9 STANDARDS IN THE COLONIES
9.1 Moving away from the standard in vocabulary
9.2 Moving away from the standard in grammar
9.3 Moving away from the standard in pronunciation
Discussion of the exercises
References
Index.