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The lesser-known varieties of English : = an introduction /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The lesser-known varieties of English :/ edited by Daniel Schreier [and others].
Reminder of title:	an introduction /
other author:	Schreier, Daniel,
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 370 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English language - Variation - Foreign countries. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511676529
ISBN:	9780511676529 (ebook)

The lesser-known varieties of English : = an introduction /
The lesser-known varieties of English :an introduction /edited by Daniel Schreier [and others]. - 1 online resource (xv, 370 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Studies in English language. - Studies in English language..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction / Daniel Schreier [and others] -- Orkney and Shetland / Gunnel Melchers and Peter Sundkvist -- Channel Island English / Mari C. Jones -- Canadian Maritime English / Michael Kiefte and Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird -- Newfoundland and Labrador English / Sandra Clarke -- Honduras/Bay Islands English / Ross Graham -- Euro-Caribbean English varieties / Jeffrey P. Williams -- Bahamian English / Jeffrey Reaser -- Dominican Kokoy / Michael Aceto -- Anglo-Argentine English / Julian Jefferies -- Falkland Islands English / David Britain and Andrea Sudbury -- St Helenian English / Daniel Schreier -- Tristan da Cunha English / Daniel Schreier -- L1 Rhodesian English / Susan Fitzmaurice -- White Kenyan English / Thomas Hoffmann -- Eurasian Singapore English / Lionel Wee -- Peranakan English in Singapore / Lisa Lim -- Norfolk Island and Pitcairn varieties / Peter Mühlhäusler.

This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of English around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Pacific, South America, the South Atlantic and West Africa, it shows how these varieties are as much part of the big picture as major varieties and that their analysis is essential for addressing some truly important issues in linguistic theory, such as dialect obsolescence and death, language birth, dialect typology and genetic classification, patterns of diffusion and transplantation and contact-induced language change. It also shows how close interwoven fields such as social history, contact linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics are in accounting for their formation and maintenance, providing a thorough description of the lesser-known varieties of English and their relevance for language spread and change.

ISBN: 9780511676529 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

565478
English language
--Variation--Foreign countries.

LC Class. No.: PE2751 / .L47 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 427

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