Dagmar Deuber

English in the Caribbean

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Produktbeschreibung

An in-depth study of English as spoken in two major anglophone Caribbean territories, Jamaica and Trinidad.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781316508985
• ISBN-10: 1316508986
• Artikelnr.: 47721781

Autorenporträt

Dagmar Deuber is Professor in the Department of English at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, where she holds the Chair of Variation Linguistics. She has also taught and conducted research at the University of the West Indies in St Augustine, Trinidad.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The background and context of English in Jamaica and Trinidad
3. The sociolinguistics of style and the Creole continuum
4. Data and methodology
5. Style in Jamaican English: analysis of conversations
6. Style and standard in Trinidadian English: analysis of four text categories
7. The modal verbs can/could and will/would in Caribbean and other varieties of English
8. Conclusion.