World Englishes Volumes I-III Set

Volume I: The British Isles Volume II: North America Volume III: Central America
Herausgeber: Hopkins, Tometro; McKenny, John; Decker, Kendall

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Produktbeschreibung

World Englishes presents a comprehensive, detailed description of English varieties spoken worldwide. The volumes in this set focus on the varieties of English spoken in the British Isles, North America and Central America. Illustrated by maps, each chapter includes detailed linguistic descriptions of grammar components, demographic data, and the historical and sociocultural background of the geographical regions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 952
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 66mm
• Gewicht: 1814g
• ISBN-13: 9780826478481
• ISBN-10: 0826478484
• Artikelnr.: 22589985

Autorenporträt

Tometro Hopkins is Associate Professor in the Linguistics Program at Florida International University, USA. John McKenny is Lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics in the English Studies Division at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. Kendall Decker is International Language Assessment Coordinator at SIL International, USA, and an expert on the Belize Kriol language.

Inhaltsangabe

I Acknowledgements Contributors List of Maps List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction
John McKenny 1. Historical Perspectives on the Development of English
Paul Cavill 2. Englishes of London and the Southeast of England
Joanna Ryfa 3. Yorkshire English
Barry J. H. Rawling 4. North East Dialect
the late Bill Griffiths 5. West Midlands English
Steve Thorne 6. South West English
Susanne Wagner 7. English in Scotland
John Corbett and Jane Stuart-Smith 8. North West English
Phillip Tipton 9. English in Wales
Heli Paulasto 10. English in Ireland
John Wilson and Sharon Millar 11. The Isle of Man
Andrew Hamer 12. English in Orkney and Shetland Islands
Klaske van Leyden 13. English in the Channel Islands
Heinrich Ramish Index II. Acknowledgements Contributors List of Maps List of Figures List of Abbreviations Series Preface Introduction: English Spreads to North America
Tometro Hopkins 1. English in Canada
Jack Chambers 2 White Varieties of English in the American South
Ellen Johnson 3. Texas Afro-Seminole Creole
Ian F. Hancock 4. Midwest American English
Beth Lee Simon 5. Chicano English
Carmen Fought 6. American American English
Charles E. DeBose 7. English in the American West
Lamont D. Antieau 8. Alaska Englishes
Patricia Kwachka Index III. Central America Maps Preface
Tometro Hopkins List of Contributors Introduction
Ken Decker Belize Kriol
Ken Decker English in Panama
Peter Snow English in Mexico
Robert Baumgartner English of the Bay Islands of Honduras
Ken Decker and Lee Henriksen English in the Colombian Archipelago of San Andres
Marcia L. Dittmann Limonese Creole English
Elizabeth Grace Winkler Nicaragua Kriol
Guillermo McLean and Arja Koskinen Bay Islands English
Ross Graham Index