American Indian English.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leap, William L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americanisms.

English language--United States--Foreign elements--Indian.

Indians of North America--Languages--Influence on English.

Indians of North America--Languages.

Languages in contact--United States.

Local Subjects:

Americanisms.

English language--United States--Foreign elements--Indian.

Indians of North America--Languages--Influence on English.

Indians of North America--Languages.

Languages in contact--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American Indian English documents and examines the diversity of English in American Indian speech communities.It presents a convincing case for the fundamental influence of ancestral Native American languages on respective modern Indian English codes.

Contents:

""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part I: Speaker and Structures ""; ""Chapter 1: Spearkers and Speech Communities ""; ""Chapter 2: Sound Patterns, Sentence Forms, and Meanings ""; ""Part II: Indian English and Ancestral Language Tradition ""; ""Chapter 3: The Ancestral Language Base ""; ""Chapter 4: Diversity and Contrast ""; ""Part III: History and Functions ""; ""Chapter 5: Thoughts on the History of Indian English ""; ""Chapter 6: Functions of Indian English ""; ""Part IV: Indian English in the Classroom ""

""Chapter 7: Contexts of Schooling on the Northern Ute Reservation """"Chapter 8: Drawing Inferences When Reading ""; ""Chapter 9: Question-answering as Story-telling ""; ""Chapter 10: Writing Ute English ""; ""Conclusions ""; ""Notes ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-60781-198-7

OCLC:

929158967