An introduction to international varieties of English / Laurie Bauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, Laurie, 1949-

Series:

Edinburgh textbooks on the English language

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Dialects.

English language.

Physical Description:

viii, 135 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2002]

Summary:

An Introduction to International Varieties of English looks at native speaker varieties of English, considering how and why they differ in terms of their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. It shows how the major national varieties of English have developed, why similar causes have given rise to different effects in different parts of the world, and how the same problems of description arise in relation to all colonial Englishes. The book considers the way that these colonial Englishes are drifting apart, and becoming more independent, and discusses the extent to which they are really separate languages. Finally, it looks at the vexed question of standards in such varieties.

Contents:

1.1 Accent, dialect, language and variety 2

1.2 Home and colony 4

1.3 Colonial lag 5

1.4 Dialect mixing 6

2 English becomes a world language 13

2.1 The spread of English 13

2.2 Models of English 19

2.3 English in Scotland and Ireland 25

3 Vocabulary 32

3.1 Borrowing 33

3.2 Coining 40

3.3 The results 42

4 Grammar 46

4.1 Morphology 46

4.2 Syntax 48

5 Spelling 61

5.1 Lexical distributional differences 62

5.2 Variation in the system 62

6 Pronunciation 69

6.1 Describing varieties of English 69

6.2 Input varieties 71

6.3 Influences from contact languages 73

6.4 Influences from other colonies 74

6.5 Influences from later immigrants 75

6.6 Influences from world English 75

6.7 Differences between varieties 76

7 The revenge of the colonised 84

7.1 Vocabulary 86

7.2 Grammar 86

7.3 Pronunciation 88

8 Becoming independent 93

8.1 British Englishes 95

8.2 North American Englishes 97

8.3 Southern hemisphere Englishes 98

8.5 The break-up of English? 100

9 Standards in the colonies 104

9.1 Moving away from the standard in vocabulary 104

9.2 Moving away from the standard in grammar 105

9.3 Moving away from the standard in pronunciation 108.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index.

ISBN:

0748613374

0748613382

OCLC:

50215885