An introduction to international varieties of English /
This study 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 varieties of English have developed and why similar causes have given rise to different effects.
| Основен автор: | Bauer, Laurie, 1949- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2002.
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| Серия: |
Edinburgh textbooks on the English language.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=80923 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Introduction to international varieties of English. |
Съдържание:
- Accent, dialect, language and variety
- Home and colony
- Colonial lag
- Dialect mixing
- English becomes a world language
- The spread of English
- Models of English
- English in Scotland and Ireland
- Vocabulary
- Borrowing
- Coining
- The results
- Grammar
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Spelling
- Lexical distributional differences
- Variation in the system
- Pronunciation
- Describing varieties of English
- Input varieties
- Influences from contact languages
- Influences from other colonies
- Influences from later immigrants
- Influences from world English
- Differences between varieties
- The revenge of the colonised
- Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Pronunciation
- Becoming independent
- British Englishes
- North American Englishes
- Southern hemisphere Englishes
- The break-up of English?
- Standards in the colonies
- Moving away from the standard in vocabulary
- Moving away from the standard in grammar
- Moving away from the standard in pronunciation.