Stefan Dollinger

Creating Canadian English

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9781108497718
• ISBN-10: 1108497713
• Artikelnr.: 54609233

Autorenporträt

Stefan Dollinger is associate professor at the University of British Columbia's Department of English, specializing on Canadian English and linguistic border studies. He is author of New-Dialect Formation in Canada (2008), The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology (2015) and, of particular interest for the present book, chief editor of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is Canadian English?
2. The heritage of Canadian English
3. Avis pulls it off
4. The 'technology': slips, slips, and more slips
5. 1967 - excitement and hype
6. Riding the wave of success
7. A global village and a national dictionary war
8. Decolonizing DCHP-1 and DCHP-2
9. Is there really a Canadian English?
Further reading.