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New-dialect formation : the inevitability of colonial Englishes / Peter Trudgill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trudgill, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Great Britain--Colonies.
- English language.
- History.
- Languages in contact.
- English language--Variation.
- English language--Dialects.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- English language--Commonwealth countries.
- English language--Dialects--Great Britain--Colonies.
- English language--Dialects--Commonwealth countries.
- English language--Variation--Great Britain--Colonies.
- English language--Variation--Commonwealth countries.
- Languages in contact--Great Britain--Colonies.
- Languages in contact--Commonwealth countries.
- English language--19th century--History.
- Commonwealth countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2004]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Distinguished sociolinguist Peter Trudgill here presents a controversial new theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. He examines the genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian French, and North American English and in particular concentrates on Australian, New Zealand, and South African English. These varieties developed during the nineteenth century along with the immigration of settlers from Britain and Ireland. The novelty of Trudgill's theory is that these new varieties of English were predictable and deterministic according to certain demographic and linguistic principles, and that all these varieties of colonial Englishes are similar to each other because they were formed out of similar mixtures according to the same principles. Trudgill argues no role in colonial dialect development and that the work of dialect formation was carried out by children over a period of two generations. Trudgill's work represents an exciting new approach to the study of language contact and dialects in its emphasis on the notion of predictability and the important role of children.
- Contents:
- Colonial dialects as mixed dialects
- Colonial lag and Southern Hemisphere evidence for nineteenth-century British English
- New-dialect formation : stage I : rudimentary levelling and interdialect development
- Stage II : variability and apparent levelling in new-dialect formation
- Stage III : determinism in new-dialect formation
- Drift : parallel developments in the Southern Hemisphere
- Determinism and social factors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [166]-176) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0748626417
- 9780748626410
- Publisher Number:
- 99962027678
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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