Canadian English

Author : Mark M. Orkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317436331

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Speaking Canadian English by Mark M. Orkin Pdf

What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? A Canadian and an Englishman? If so, how? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language? Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada – its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English – how it came to sound the way it does – and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

Author : Margery Fee,Janice McAlpine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195445937

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Guide to Canadian English Usage by Margery Fee,Janice McAlpine Pdf

The complexities of the English language can be daunting for even the most fluent speakers, and for Canadians this is doubly so with the mixture of British and American traditions. Almost anyone engaged in formal writing will sometimes need to consult a usage guide for advice, but Canadians have always been forced to choose between a British or an American source. With the Guide to Canadian English Usage, writers will have an authoritative reference based on Canadian sources that provides pithy direction on numerous details of the language. From the indefinite article to zoology, alphabetically arranged entries clarify issues of word choice, punctuation, spelling, and abbreviation. Throughout it offers guidance on Canadianisms, confusibles, difficult expressions, First Nation names, foreign phrases, grammar, inclusive language, punctuation, spelling, and troublesome pronunciations. Each entry explains the problem at hand, outlines a range of prescriptions, and then either recommends a particular usage or reviews the alternatives from which the now-informed reader can choose. All entries feature a wide range of fascinating quotations from Canadian sources. Newly reissued in an attractive hardcover edition, the Guide to Canadian English Usage is the essential reference for any writer, editor, or speaker of English in Canada.

Author : Stefan Dollinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108497718

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Creating Canadian English by Stefan Dollinger Pdf

Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.

Author : Small Nation
Publisher : Small Nation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780994966476

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Canadian English by Small Nation Pdf

New English speakers and writers need words at their fingertips to feel confident, independent, and fluent. Canadian English offers a rich word resource that is small and handy to use in a classroom, at home, or on the go. Students can refer to their own personalized book, which includes extensive vocabulary, along with extra spaces for students to add words.

Author : Normand Lester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112844563

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The Black Book of English Canada by Normand Lester Pdf

Normand Lester, a journalist with Radio-Canada (the French-language equivalent of the CBC) stirred up a hornet’s nest when he revealed that the federal government had secretly funded television’s Heritage Minutes which, in his view, provided a sanitized version of our shared history. He was subsequently, controversially, let go. The Black Book of Canada is his impassioned defence of his native province and an implicit repudiation of the anglophone media’s unfair, yet all-too-common attacks on Quebec and Quebecers. While English Canada may think itself a “just society,” in this highly controversial book – which sold 50,000 copies in French – Normand Lester chronicles English-Canadian intolerance: the expulsion of the Acadians; Lord Durham’s anti-French policies; the hanging of Louis Riel; R. B. Bennett’s funding of anti-Semitic publications; and the internment of Japanese Canadians in the Second World War. Lester argues that the myth of two equal, amicable co-founders of the nation, a myth actively promoted by the federal government over recent decades, ignores the fact that there will always be two incompatible national histories.

Author : James A. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135913762

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Canadian English by James A. Walker Pdf

This textbook is the only one of its kind to introduce the study of Canadian English in the context of basic concepts of linguistics and sociolinguistics. The book provides foundational information on linguistic principles and on the different branches of sociolinguistics, ranging from the large-scale ‘macro’ study of language usage (the sociology of language, dialect surveys) to the ‘micro’ study of language use (sociophonetics, sociolinguistic variation and change). Each chapter highlights the different ways of collecting and analyzing data, including census data and historical texts, surveys and questionnaires, publically available corpora, and interviews. Mini-projects at the end of each chapter offer hands-on experience with the methods presented in the chapter. In addition to discussing the classic works in the study of Canadian English, this book engages with such contemporary issues as new-dialect formation, language and social identity, and ongoing language change, making it key reading for students taking courses in the areas of Canadian English, varieties of English, language variation, and sociolinguistics.

Author : Charles Boberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139491440

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The English Language in Canada by Charles Boberg Pdf

The English Language in Canada examines the current status, history and principal features of Canadian English, focusing on the 'standard' variety heard across the country today. The discussion of the status of Canadian English considers the number and distribution of its speakers, its relation to French and other Canadian languages and to American English, its status as the expressive medium of English Canadian culture and its treatment in previous research. The review of its history concentrates on the historical roots and patterns of English-speaking settlement that established Canadian English and influenced its character in each region of Canada. The analysis of its principal features compares the vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar of Canadian English to standard British and American English. Subsequent chapters examine variation and change in the vocabulary and pronunciation of Canadian English, while a final chapter briefly considers the future of Canadian English.

Author : Public Works and Government Services Canada Translation Bureau,Dundurn Press Limited
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781554883172

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The Canadian Style by Public Works and Government Services Canada Translation Bureau,Dundurn Press Limited Pdf

The revised edition of The Canadian Style is an indispensable language guide for editors, copywriters, students, teachers, lawyers, journalists, secretaries and business people – in fact, anyone writing in the English language in Canada today. It provides concise, up-to-date answers to a host of questions on abbreviations, hyphenation, spelling, the use of capital letters, punctuation and frequently misused or confused words. It deals with letter, memo and report formats, notes, indexes and bibliographies, and geographical names. It also gives techniques for writing clearly and concisely, editing documents and avoiding stereotyping in communications. There is even an appendix on how to present French words in an English text.

Author : Margaret Atwood,Robert Weaver
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018293295

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The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English by Margaret Atwood,Robert Weaver Pdf

A survey of Canada's leading writers features forty-seven stories, with new pieces by writers in the original Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories. Included are short stories by W. P. Kinsella, Morley Callaghan, Timothy Findlay, Matt Cohen, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood.

Author : J. K. Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015062105781

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Canadian English by J. K. Chambers Pdf

Author : Adam Bednarek
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443814553

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Studies in Canadian English by Adam Bednarek Pdf

This publication focuses on vocabulary, which reflects unique Canadian traits; elements that share not only a Canadian origin but also reference to everyday contexts present on both the micro and macro stage. The conducted study aimed to show variation on the lexical level, which may result from a fluid sense of national identity. The Toronto region, due to its extensive multi-cultural and multi-ethnic background bears a sense of diversity both on the social and linguistic ground. The conducted study involved the distribution of questionnaires, which tested speakers’ knowledge of Canadian register, their ability of using them in the context of everyday discourse and the identification of items. Furthermore, the author had obtained two years worth of texts from the Toronto Sun, which enabled the observation of Canadianisms within the written medium of a media context. The resulting data formed a database labeled by the author as the LCTES (Lodz Corpus for Toronto English Study).

Author : Matthew Henry Scargill,Canadian Council of Teachers of English
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Canadianisms
ISBN : UOM:39015010868126

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Modern Canadian English Usage by Matthew Henry Scargill,Canadian Council of Teachers of English Pdf

A study of the spoken language of school students and their parents across Canada.

Author : Mark M. Orkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317436324

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Speaking Canadian English by Mark M. Orkin Pdf

What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? A Canadian and an Englishman? If so, how? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language? Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada – its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English – how it came to sound the way it does – and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

Author : Christian Hensgens
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638248730

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The English Language in Canada by Christian Hensgens Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: C, University of Cologne (Philosophy Faculty), course: English Worldwide, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: „The flag is the symbol of the nation’s unity, for it, beyond any doubt, represents all the citizens of Canada without distinction of race, language, belief or opinion.”said Maurice Bourget, Speaker of the Senate on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on February 15, 1965, thereby lowering the Canadian Red Ensign and raising the new maple leaf flag 1 . Defining the flag as a symbol of the nation’s unity, Bourget touches upon a question of unity not easy to answer in context of a country like Canada. As a multinational and multicultural country, Canada’s search for unity with regard to the language of it’s citizens is not easy to make out as a question of unity in most cases is a question of identity as well. Whenever we focus on a nation’s unity, we will have to focus on aspects defining the nation, chiefly it’s language enabling communication between it’s citizens and the identity resulting from the use of a language. This work will put a focus on the the language used in Canada and search for a Canadian identity. It will provide some historical facts and will then focus on the official language(s) spoken in Canada, their differences and similarities to US and UK English. Furthermore the problems resulting from Canada’s bilingualism will be portrayed and it will be asked if and how Canadians experience their English as a separate entity: The English Language in Canada.

Author : Neil Sutherland,Cynthia Comacchio
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889205895

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Children in English-Canadian Society by Neil Sutherland,Cynthia Comacchio Pdf

“So often a long-awaited book is disappointing. Happily such is not the case with Sutherland’s masterpiece.” Robert M. Stamp, University of Calgary, in The Canadian Historical Review “Sutherland’s work is destined to be a landmark in Canadian history, both as a first in its particular field and as a standard reference text.” J. Stewart Hardy, University of Alberta, in Alberta Journal of Educational Research Such were the reviewers’ comments when Neil Sutherland’s groundbreaking book was first published. Now reissued in Wilfrid Laurier University Press’s new series “Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada,” with a new introduction by series editor Cynthia Comacchio, this book remains relevant today. In the late nineteenth century a new generation of reformers committed itself to a program of social improvement based on the more effective upbringing of all children. In Children in English-Canadian Society, Neil Sutherland examines, with a keen eye, the growth of the public health movement and its various efforts at improving the health of children.