Covering varieties of English spoken in Britain, the U.S.A., Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the Falkland Islands, this book shows how the major national varieties of English have developed and why similar causes have given rise to different effects in different parts of the world.
Covering varieties of English spoken in Britain, the U.S.A., Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the Falkland Islands, this book shows how the major national varieties of English have developed and why similar causes have given rise to different effects in different parts of the world.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Laurie Bauer is Professor of Linguistics at the Victoria University of Wellington. He is an Editor of the journal Word Structure.
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Preface 1 BACKGROUND NOTIONS 1.1 Accent, dialect, language and variety 1.2 Home and colony 1.3 Colonial lag 1.4 Dialect mixing 2 ENGLISH BECOMES A WORLD LANGUAGE 2.1 The spread of English 2.2 Models of English 2.3 English in Scotland and Ireland 3 VOCABULARY 3.1 Borrowing 3.2 Coining 3.3 The results 4 GRAMMAR 4.1 Morphology 4.2 Syntax 5 SPELLING 5.2 Lexical distributional differences 5.2 Variation in the system 6 PRONUNCIATION 6.1 Describing varieties of English 6.2 Input varieties 6.3 Influences from contact languages 6.4 Influences from other colonies 6.5 Influences from later immigrants 6.6 Influences from world English 6.7 Differences between varieties 7 THE REVENGE OF THE COLONISED 7.1 Vocabulary 7.2 Grammar 7.3 Pronunciation 8 BECOMING INDEPENDENT 8.1 British Englishes 8.2 North American Englishes 8.3 Southern hemisphere Englishes 8.4 Discussion 8.5 The break-up of English? 9 STANDARDS IN THE COLONIES 9.1 Moving away from the standard in vocabulary 9.2 Moving away from the standard in grammar 9.3 Moving away from the standard in pronunciation Discussion of the exercises References Index.
Preface 1 BACKGROUND NOTIONS 1.1 Accent, dialect, language and variety 1.2 Home and colony 1.3 Colonial lag 1.4 Dialect mixing 2 ENGLISH BECOMES A WORLD LANGUAGE 2.1 The spread of English 2.2 Models of English 2.3 English in Scotland and Ireland 3 VOCABULARY 3.1 Borrowing 3.2 Coining 3.3 The results 4 GRAMMAR 4.1 Morphology 4.2 Syntax 5 SPELLING 5.2 Lexical distributional differences 5.2 Variation in the system 6 PRONUNCIATION 6.1 Describing varieties of English 6.2 Input varieties 6.3 Influences from contact languages 6.4 Influences from other colonies 6.5 Influences from later immigrants 6.6 Influences from world English 6.7 Differences between varieties 7 THE REVENGE OF THE COLONISED 7.1 Vocabulary 7.2 Grammar 7.3 Pronunciation 8 BECOMING INDEPENDENT 8.1 British Englishes 8.2 North American Englishes 8.3 Southern hemisphere Englishes 8.4 Discussion 8.5 The break-up of English? 9 STANDARDS IN THE COLONIES 9.1 Moving away from the standard in vocabulary 9.2 Moving away from the standard in grammar 9.3 Moving away from the standard in pronunciation Discussion of the exercises References Index.
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