The Variability of Current World Englishes
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 con…
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Weitere Autoren: Meyer, Charles F. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-11-039491-7
- EAN: 9783110394917
- Produktnummer: 16569228
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 295 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Eugene Green and Charles F. Meyer, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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