Englishes In Contact

Author : Daniel Schreier,Marianne Hundt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139619264

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English as a Contact Language by Daniel Schreier,Marianne Hundt Pdf

Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. Special focus is on recent debates surrounding substratal influence in earlier forms of English (particularly Celtic influence in Old English), on language shift processes (the formation of Irish and overseas varieties) but also on dialects in contact, the contact origins of Standard English, the notion of new epicentres in World English, the role of children and adults in language change as well as transfer and language learning. With contributions from leading experts, the book offers fresh and exciting perspectives for research and is at the same time an up-to-date overview of the state of the art in the respective fields.

Author : Michael Aceto,Jeffrey P. Williams
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296504

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Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean by Michael Aceto,Jeffrey P. Williams Pdf

Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean is the first collection to focus, via primary linguistic fieldwork, on the underrepresented and neglected area of the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean. The following islands are included: The Virgin Islands (USA & British), Anguilla, Barbuda, Dominica, St. Lucia, Carriacou, Barbados, Trinidad, and Guyana. In an effort to be as inclusive as possible, the contiguous areas of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands (often considered part of North American Englishes) are also included. Papers in this volume explore all aspects of language study, including syntax, phonology, historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, ethnography, and performance. It should be of interest not only to creolists but also to linguists, anthropologists, sociologists and educators either in the Caribbean itself or those who work with schoolchildren of West Indian descent.

Author : Alexander Onysko,Peter Siemund
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782832503744

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Englishes in a Globalized World: Exploring Contact Effects on Other Languages by Alexander Onysko,Peter Siemund Pdf

Author : P. David Seaman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110811766

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Modern Greek and American English in Contact by P. David Seaman Pdf

Author : Christiane Meierkord
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521192286

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Interactions Across Englishes by Christiane Meierkord Pdf

The global spread of English has resulted in contact with an enormous variety of different languages worldwide, leading to the creation of many new varieties of English. This book takes an original look at what happens when speakers of these different varieties interact with one another.

Author : Michael G. Clyne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521786487

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Dynamics of Language Contact by Michael G. Clyne Pdf

Discusses disparate findings to examine the dynamics of contact between languages in an immigrant context.

Author : Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Heli Paulasto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134501724

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English and Celtic in Contact by Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Heli Paulasto Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. Drawing on both original research and existing work, it covers both the earliest medieval contacts and their linguistic effects and the reflexes of later, early modern and modern contacts, especially various regional varieties of English.

Author : Ian Mackenzie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351366588

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Language Contact and the Future of English by Ian Mackenzie Pdf

This book reflects on the future of the English language as used by native speakers, speakers of nativized New Englishes, and users of English as a lingua franca (ELF). The volume begins by outlining the current position of English in the world and accounts for the differences among native and nativized varieties and ELF usages. It offers a historical perspective on the impact of language contact on English and discusses whether the lexicogrammatical features of New Englishes and ELF are shaped by imperfect learning or deliberate language change. The book also considers the consequences of writing in a second language and questions the extent to which non-native English-speaking academics and researchers should be required to conform to ‘Anglo’ patterns of text organization and ‘English Academic Discourse.’ The book then examines the converse effect of English on other languages through bilingualism and translation. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars in English language, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and language policy.

Author : Robert Mailhammer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110707946

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English on Croker Island by Robert Mailhammer Pdf

Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the significant degree of variation found across the continent. This book presents the first description of English spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory, Australia, in terms of its history, linguistic features and connections to local Aboriginal languages. It demonstrates that English on Croker Island shows an extremely high degree of intra- and inter-speaker variation and embedding in a longstanding multilingual contact situation, both of which challenge existing models of variation and language contact. These results have significant ramifications for how variation is modelled, for our understanding of how postcolonial Englishes develop, as well as for the dynamics of complex contact situations. The book also puts English on Croker Island into a typological context of World Englishes by establishing a profile according to the parameters of the World Atlas of Varieties of English (WAVE). It is of interest to academics interested in Australian Aboriginal English, language contact, World Englishes and Australian Aboriginal languages.

Author : Maleika Krüger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783658424084

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Media-Related Out-of-School Contact with English in Germany and Switzerland by Maleika Krüger Pdf

This open access book aimes to close a critical research gap in understanding how frequently German-speaking adolescents come into contact with the English language through various media channels, such as television, books, or the internet, and how this contact influences learners’ English competences. In addition, this research project explores the effect of family background and gender on this contact. The analysis shows frequent contact with English-language media content by young learners in Germany and Switzerland. More frequent contact was associated with higher language competences. Differences could be found in the preferences of media content and type of media channels due to socio-economic family background and gender.

Author : James Stanlaw
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789622095717

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Japanese English by James Stanlaw Pdf

The volumes in this series set out to provide a contemporary record of the spread and development of the English language in South, Southeast, and East Asia from both a linguistic and literary perspective. Each volume will reflect themes that cut across national boundaries, including the study of language policies; globalization and linguistic imperialism; English in the media; English in law, government and education; 'hybrid' Englishes; and the bilingual creativity manifested by the vibrant creative writing found in a swathe of Asian societies. This book gives an in-depth analysis of the use of the English language in modern Japan. It explores the many ramifications the Japanese-English language and culture contact situation has for not only Japanese themselves, but also others in the international community. Data for this book has been gathered using anthropological ethnographic fieldwork, augmented by archival sources, written materials, and items from popular culture and the mass media. An interdisciplinary approach, including those of anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive science and symbolic anthropology, is taken in the exploration of the topics here. This book's arguments focus on four major theoretical linguistic and social issues, namely the place of the Japanese-English case in the larger context of 'World Englishes'; the place of the Japanese-English case in a general theory of language and culture contact; how Japanese English informs problems of categorization, meaning construction and cognition; and what it says about the social construction of identity and sense of self, nationalism and race. This book will be of interest to linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, cognitive scientists, and all readers who are interested in language contact, sociolinguistics, English as an international language, and World Englishes. It will also appeal to those who are interested in Japan and popular culture.

Author : Daniel Schreier,Marianne Hundt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107001961

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English as a Contact Language by Daniel Schreier,Marianne Hundt Pdf

Highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics and language acquisition. With contributions from leading experts, the book offers fresh and exciting perspectives as well as an up-to-date overview of the respective fields.

Author : Barbara R. Denman
Publisher : Longman
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : English language
ISBN : 0201645769

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In Contact by Barbara R. Denman Pdf

The In Contact Workbook provides further practice and reinforcement of vocabulary and grammar, as well as additional interactive speaking activities, listening tasks, and a self-check page at the end of each unit.

Author : Dieter Kastovsky
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3631504489

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Language Contact in the History of English by Dieter Kastovsky Pdf

More than any other European language English has been shaped by its contacts with other languages such as Celtic, Latin, Scandinavian and French. This is true not only of the vocabulary, but also of morphology and even phonology and syntax. But also the contact between different varieties of English played an important role, especially in the shaping of the Englishes outside England. The papers contained in this volume deal with such contacts from various points of views. Major topics are: the restructuring of lexical fields by borrowing processes in Old, Middle and Early Modern English, the influence of Scandinavian on the morphology, the influence of Latin on English syntax, the development of Middle English verse meter under Italian influence, the origin of spelling conventions, the role of code-switching and language mixing for the development of the language, and the role of language contact in general in Central Europe.

Author : Herbert W. Seliger,Robert M. Vago
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521348838

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First Language Attrition by Herbert W. Seliger,Robert M. Vago Pdf

Examines linguistic aspects of the attrition or loss of first language abilities in bilinguals.