The Variability of Current World Englishes - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110339676 ISBN 13 : 9783110339673

Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2014

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Mouton
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110339676
• ISBN 13: 9783110339673
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 295
• Éditeur: Green Eugene, Meyer Charles F.
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