Gunnel Melchers, Philip Shaw, Peter Sundkvist

World Englishes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The third edition of World Englishes provides an engaging overview of the global variations in vocabulary, grammar, phonology and pragmatics of English as it is used worldwide. This book is essential reading for students approaching this topic for the first time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 3. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9781138487666
• ISBN-10: 113848766X
• Artikelnr.: 57046309

Autorenporträt

Gunnel Melchers is Professor Emerita in the English Department at Stockholm University. Her research has been devoted to regional and social variation, with special reference to the north of England and Scotland's Northern Isles. Philip Shaw is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at Stockholm University. He has published within a wide range of areas of applied linguistics, particularly with a focus on academic and business English, and vocabulary learning among advanced students, and in World Englishes. Peter Sundkvist is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Stockholm University. His research interests concern phonology, phonetics, and dialectology, relating to varieties of English and Germanic languages more generally. Most of his empirical work has focused on the Shetland Islands and such topics as Shetland Scots and Scottish Standard English.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
IPA chart
1 The roots of English
2 The spread of English
3 Variation in English
4 The Inner circle
5 The Outer circle
6 The Expanding circle
7 Beyond the circles
Wells' Standard lexical sets
Glossary of linguistic terms
References
Index