Postcolonial English: Varieties around the WorldCambridge University Press, 17.05.2007 The global spread of English has resulted in the emergence of a diverse range of postcolonial varieties around the world. Postcolonial English provides a clear and original account of the evolution of these varieties, exploring the historical, social and ecological factors that have shaped all levels of their structure. It argues that while these Englishes have developed new and unique properties which differ greatly from one location to another, their spread and diversification can in fact be explained by a single underlying process, which builds upon the constant relationships and communication needs of the colonizers, the colonized, and other parties. Outlining the stages and characteristics of this process, it applies them in detail to English in sixteen different countries across all continents as well as, in a separate chapter, to a history of American English. Of key interest to sociolinguists, dialectologists, historical linguists and syntacticians alike, this book provides a fascinating new picture of the growth and evolution of English around the globe. |
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... functions ; it has indigenized and grown local roots . It has begun to thrive and to produce innovative , regionally distinctive forms and uses of its own , in contact with indigenous languages and cultures and in the mouths of both ...
... functions ; it has indigenized and grown local roots . It has begun to thrive and to produce innovative , regionally distinctive forms and uses of its own , in contact with indigenous languages and cultures and in the mouths of both ...
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... functions . Indeed , this is the position that scholarship has typically taken : it has been customary to view individual PCEs in isolation , independently of each other , as unique cases shaped by idiosyncratic historical conditions ...
... functions . Indeed , this is the position that scholarship has typically taken : it has been customary to view individual PCEs in isolation , independently of each other , as unique cases shaped by idiosyncratic historical conditions ...
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... functions of languages and language varieties in a society , i.e. questions of language policy , multilingualism , diglossia , language uses , educational policies . “ Micro- sociolinguistics , " as developed by William Labov ( 1972 ...
... functions of languages and language varieties in a society , i.e. questions of language policy , multilingualism , diglossia , language uses , educational policies . “ Micro- sociolinguistics , " as developed by William Labov ( 1972 ...
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... functional and political role of English in a given country , and both assuming three classes . The first of these models ... function but is still strongly rooted and widely used in some domains ( like the press or tertiary education ) ...
... functional and political role of English in a given country , and both assuming three classes . The first of these models ... function but is still strongly rooted and widely used in some domains ( like the press or tertiary education ) ...
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... function as examples , it is obvious that in terms of their membership countries the three circles largely correspond to the ENL ESL EFL distinction . The difference between the two models is primarily one of their broader goals and ...
... function as examples , it is obvious that in terms of their membership countries the three circles largely correspond to the ENL ESL EFL distinction . The difference between the two models is primarily one of their broader goals and ...
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Postcolonial English: Varieties Around the World Edgar Werner Schneider Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2007 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accepted adopted ADS strand African Afrikaans American English attitude Australia Australian English basilectal bilingualism British English Canadian Canadian English Caribbean characteristic colonial contexts Creole creolization cultural dialect Dictionary distinctive documented Dynamic Model early emergence endonormative ethnic European example exonormative orientation formal forms of English function grammatical groups homogeneity Hong Kong identity construction IDG strand immigrants important independence Indian English indigenous languages indigenous population innovations Jamaican Jamaican Creole Kachru koinéization language contact language shift large numbers lexical linguistic major Malaysian English markers Mufwene Native Americans Nigerian norm observed patterns PCEs percent phase Pidgin plantation political pronunciation regional respect role settlement settlers Singapore Singaporean English Singlish situation slaves social society sociolinguistic South Africa speakers speech spread standard status STL strand structural nativization symbolic tion traditional Trudgill twentieth century types typically usage varieties of English verbs vernacular whites words Zealand Zealand English
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 277 - As an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we are and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard, for the taste of her writers is already corrupted and her language on the decline.
Seite 269 - Though the inhabitants of this Country are composed of different Nations and different languages, yet it is very remarkable that they in general speak better English than the English do.
Seite 287 - ... education. Noah Webster's blueback speller and William Holmes McGuffey's series of readers became all-time best-sellers, and the possession of certificates and diplomas became a passport to success. In the absence of a well-defined elite (except in parts of the South and some of the older cultural centers), it is not surprising that a citizen population that often sought salvation from the literal (though translated) message of the Bible should seek its path to education in the literal message...
Seite 185 - To my compatriots, I have no hesitation in saying that each one of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld. Each time one of us touches the soil of this land, we feel a sense of personal renewal.
Seite 297 - When a man says [rat] or [huus], he is unconsciously establishing the fact that he belongs to the island : that he is one of the natives to whom the island really belongs.
Seite 290 - English people; but there are fewer local peculiarities of form and articulation in our vast extent of territory than on the comparatively narrow soil of Great Britain. In spite of disturbing and distracting causes, English is more emphatically one in America than in its native land...
Seite 277 - English, yet several circumstances render a future separation of the American tongue from the English, necessary and unavoidable. The vicinity of the European nations, with the uninterrupted communication in peace, and the changes of dominion in war, are gradually assimilating their respective languages.
Verweise auf dieses Buch
Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English Tim William Machan Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |