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E-Book
Titel:
Legacies of colonial English
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studies in transported dialects
Enthält:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures, maps and tables; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Dialects of English and their transportation; 2 Scots and Scottish English; 3 Development and diffusion of Irish English; 4 The emergence of American English: evidence from seventeenth-century records in New England; 5 The language of transported Londoners: third-person-singular present-tense markers in depositions from Virginia and the Bermudas, 1607-1624; 6 Remnant dialects in the coastal United States; 7 Back to the present: verbal -s in the (African American) English diaspora
8 'Canadian Dainty': the rise and decline of Briticisms in Canada9 The legacy of British and Irish English in Newfoundland; 10 The English dialect heritage of the southern United States; 11 Solving Kurath's puzzle: establishing the antecedents of the American Midland dialect region; 12 English dialect input to the Caribbean; 13 South African English; 14 English transported to the South Atlantic Ocean: Tristan da Cunha; 15 English on the Falklands; 16 English input to Australia; 17 English input to New Zealand; 18 English input to the English-lexicon pidgins and creoles of the Pacific
19 Englishes in Asia and Africa: origin and structure20 South Asian Englishes; 21 South-East Asian Englishes; Appendix 1 Checklist of nonstandard features; Appendix 2 Timeline for varieties of English; Appendix 3 Maps of anglophone locations; Glossary of terms; General references; Index of names; General index;
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Description based upon print version of record
Beschreibung:
As a result of colonization, many varieties of English now exist around the world. Originally published in 2005, Legacies of Colonial English brings together a team of internationally renowned scholars to discuss the role of British dialects in both the genesis and subsequent history of postcolonial Englishes. Considering the input of Scottish, English and Irish dialects, they closely examine a wide range of Englishes - including those in North and South America, South Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand - and explain why many of them still reflect non-standard British usage from the distant past. Complete with a checklist of dialect features, a detailed glossary and set of general references on the topic of postcolonial Englishes, this book will be an invaluable source to scholars and students of English language and linguistics, particularly those interested in sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology.