Beschreibung:
This book provides an account of the spread and diversification of postcolonial English worldwide.
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps, figures, and tables -- Series editor's foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Charting the territory: Postcolonial Englishes as a field of linguistic investigation -- 2.1 Ancestry -- 2.2 Approaches -- 2.3 Alternative perspectives and issues -- 3 The evolution of Postcolonial Englishes: the Dynamic Model -- 3.1 Transforming selves in migration: theoretical background -- 3.1.1 Language contact: processes, perspectives, scenarios -- 3.1.2 Social identity and linguistic accommodation -- 3.2 The Dynamic Model of the evolution of Postcolonial Englishes -- 3.2.1 Rationale and overview -- 3.2.2 Phase 1: Foundation -- 3.2.3 Phase 2: Exonormative stabilization -- 3.2.4 Phase 3: Nativization -- 3.2.5 Phase 4: Endonormative stabilization -- 3.2.6 Phase 5: Differentiation -- 3.2.7 Summary -- 3.3 Variations on the basic pattern -- 3.3.1 On the nature of a model -- 3.3.2 Adstrates -- 3.3.3 Creolization -- 3.3.4 English as a symbol of elitism -- 3.3.5 Variation by colonization type -- 3.4 Wider applicability -- 4 Linguistic aspects of nativization -- 4.1 Structural nativization: characteristic features -- 4.1.1 Phonology -- 4.1.2 Lexis -- 4.1.3 Grammar -- 4.2 Tracing structural nativization: methodological and conceptual issues -- 4.2.1 Degrees of difference -- 4.3 The road to nativization: linguistic processes -- 4.3.1 Background: parameters of language change -- 4.3.2 Filling the feature pool: linguistic processes -- 4.3.3 Choosing a path: factors in diffusion and selection -- 5 Countries along the cycle: case studies -- 5.1 Fiji -- 5.2 Australia -- 5.2.1 Phase 1 (1788-ca. 1830s) -- 5.2.2 Phase 2 (ca. 1830s-1901) -- 5.2.3 Phase 3 (1901-1942) -- 5.2.4 Phase 4 (1942-ca. 1980s) -- 5.2.5 Phase 5 (ca. 1980s-) -- 5.3 New Zealand.