The lesser-known varieties of English : an introduction / edited by Daniel Schreier [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schreier, Daniel, 1971- editor.

Series:

Studies in English language.

Studies in English language

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Variation--Foreign countries.

English language.

English language--Variation--English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of English around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Pacific, South America, the South Atlantic and West Africa, it shows how these varieties are as much part of the big picture as major varieties and that their analysis is essential for addressing some truly important issues in linguistic theory, such as dialect obsolescence and death, language birth, dialect typology and genetic classification, patterns of diffusion and transplantation and contact-induced language change. It also shows how close interwoven fields such as social history, contact linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics are in accounting for their formation and maintenance, providing a thorough description of the lesser-known varieties of English and their relevance for language spread and change.

Contents:

Introduction / Daniel Schreier [and others]

Orkney and Shetland / Gunnel Melchers and Peter Sundkvist

Channel Island English / Mari C. Jones

Canadian Maritime English / Michael Kiefte and Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird

Newfoundland and Labrador English / Sandra Clarke

Honduras/Bay Islands English / Ross Graham

Euro-Caribbean English varieties / Jeffrey P. Williams

Bahamian English / Jeffrey Reaser

Dominican Kokoy / Michael Aceto

Anglo-Argentine English / Julian Jefferies

Falkland Islands English / David Britain and Andrea Sudbury

St Helenian English / Daniel Schreier

Tristan da Cunha English / Daniel Schreier

L1 Rhodesian English / Susan Fitzmaurice

White Kenyan English / Thomas Hoffmann

Eurasian Singapore English / Lionel Wee

Peranakan English in Singapore / Lisa Lim

Norfolk Island and Pitcairn varieties / Peter Mühlhäusler.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

0-511-73982-6

1-107-21134-4

1-282-53636-2

9786612536366

0-511-67889-4

0-511-67764-2

0-511-68212-3

0-511-68410-X

0-511-67652-2

0-511-68014-7

OCLC:

609860264