Varieties Of English The Americas And The Caribbean

Author : Edgar W. Schneider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110208405

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The Americas and the Caribbean by Edgar W. Schneider Pdf

This volume gives a detailed overview of the varieties of English spoken in the Americas and the Caribbean, including regional, social and ethnic dialects (such as Southern US, Canadian or Chicano English) as well as Caribbean creoles from the Bahamas to Suriname. The chapters, written by widely acclaimed specialists, provide concise and comprehensive information on the phonological, morphological and syntactic characteristics of each variety discussed. The articles are followed by exercises and study questions. The exercises are geared towards students and can be used for classroom assignments as well as for self study in preparation for exams. Instructors can use the exercises, sound samples and interactive maps to enhance their classroom presentations and to highlight important language features.

Author : Bernd Kortmann,Clive Upton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:231651249

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Varieties of English: The Americas and the Caribbean by Bernd Kortmann,Clive Upton Pdf

Author : John A. Holm,Geneviève Escure
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783872762955

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Central American English by John A. Holm,Geneviève Escure Pdf

This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on current field work from Belize to Panama. One of the interesting features that emerges is the tentative map of diachronic and synchronic relationsships among the Anglophone creoles of the Caribbean, as illustrated partly by the lexicon and partly by grammatical constructions. The studies in this book are based on phonetic transcriptions of speech acts in their social and linguistic context.

Author : Kate Burridge,Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015076121675

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The Pacific and Australasia by Kate Burridge,Bernd Kortmann Pdf

This new multimedia textbook covers the phonology, morphology and syntax of varieties of English in the Americas and the Caribbean. It is accompanied by an interactive CD-ROM. The articles, written by widely acclaimed specialists, provide concise and comprehensive information on the phonetic, morphological and syntactic characteristics of each variety discussed. They are followed by exercises and study questions that can be used for classroom assignments as well as for self study in preparation for exams. The multimedia CD-ROM contains sound samples, speech recordings, interactive and synchronized maps, an extensive bibliography on relevant research literature, and links to pertinent websites.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : English language
ISBN : 3110196352

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Varieties of English. Vol 4 by Anonim Pdf

This new multimedia textbook covers the phonology, morphology and syntax of varieties of English in the Americas and the Caribbean. It is accompanied by an interactive CD-ROM. The articles, written by widely acclaimed specialists, provide concise and comprehensive information on the phonetic, morphological and syntactic characteristics of each variety discussed. They are followed by exercises and study questions that can be used for classroom assignments as well as for self study in preparation for exams. The multimedia CD-ROM contains sound samples, speech recordings, interactive and synchronized maps, an extensive bibliography on relevant research literature, and links to pertinent websites.

Author : Bernd Kortmann,Clive Upton,Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Creole dialects, English
ISBN : 3110196387

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Varieties of English by Bernd Kortmann,Clive Upton,Rajend Mesthrie Pdf

Vol. 3: Covers the phonology, morphology and syntax of varieties of English in Pacific and Australasia. This work includes exercises and study questions that can be used for classroom assignments as well as for self study. It includes an interactive CD-ROM which contains sound samples, speech recordings, interactive and synchronized maps.

Author : Paula Prescod
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269003

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Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines by Paula Prescod Pdf

This collection is a pioneer study of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent and the Grenadines, written by scholars who are both respected in their field of research and connected to the linguistic realities in the geographic area under investigation. This book covers the subfields of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, ethnography, historical linguistics and syntax. It concentrates on mainland St Vincent and the Grenadine island of Bequia. The volume will appeal to a broad audience including not just specialists in linguistics but also teacher trainers and educators.

Author : John Holm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781588116734

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Central American English by John Holm Pdf

This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on current field work from Belize to Panama. One of the interesting features that emerges is the tentative map of diachronic and synchronic relationsships among the Anglophone creoles of the Caribbean, as illustrated partly by the lexicon and partly by grammatical constructions. The studies in this book are based on phonetic transcriptions of speech acts in their social and linguistic context.

Author : Manfred Görlach,John Holm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027279132

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Focus on the Caribbean by Manfred Görlach,John Holm Pdf

This collection represents an important contribution not only to creole linguistics but also to Caribbean studies and English dialectology. It contains eleven essays on the special development and present-day functions of English and Creole in the Caribbean, ranging from Central America to Guyana. Topics include the spread of English and Creole, Spanish-English contact, the reconstruction of early phonology, the semantics of syntactic markers, the impact of colonial language policies, language and class, and the speech of Rastafarians. Half of the contributors are from the Caribbean region; the others are from Europe, Africa and the United States.

Author : Matthias Klumm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258953

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Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad by Matthias Klumm Pdf

This book examines the various patterns of nominal and pronominal address used in Jamaica and Trinidad, the two most populous islands of the English-speaking Caribbean. Given that the Anglo-Caribbean context has so far been largely neglected in address research, this study aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the linguistic means Jamaicans and Trinidadians have at their disposal and make use of to address each other. A particular focus will be on variation in the speakers’ address behaviour with regard to their sex, age, social class, ethnicity, and regional background. The study draws both on data from a self-compiled corpus of postcolonial Jamaican and Trinidadian literary works, and on questionnaire and interview data collected during fieldwork. This book contributes to the ever-growing body of research in the field of nominal and pronominal address, and will be relevant to researchers interested in the fields of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and World Englishes.

Author : Stephan Gramley,Vivian Gramley,Kurt-Michael Pätzold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000089912

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A Survey of Modern English by Stephan Gramley,Vivian Gramley,Kurt-Michael Pätzold Pdf

A Survey of Modern English covers a wide selection of aspects of the modern English language. Fully revised and updated, the major focus of the third edition lies in Standard American and British English individually and in comparison with each other. Over and beyond that, this volume treats other Englishes around the world, especially those of the southern hemisphere countries of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa as well as numerous varieties spoken in southern, eastern and western Africa, south and southeast Asia, and the Pacific. The main areas of investigation and interest include: pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary; multiple facets of English dialects and sociolects with an emphasis on gender and ethnicity; questions of pragmatics as well as a longer look at English-related pidgin and creole varieties. This authoritative guide is a comprehensive, scholarly, and systematic review of modern English. In one volume, the book presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day English and its geographical, social, gender, and ethnic variations. This is complemented with an updated general bibliography and with exercises at the end of each chapter and their suggested solutions at the end of the volume, all intended to provide students and other interested readers with helpful resources.

Author : Alexander Bergs,Laurel Brinton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110525045

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Varieties of English by Alexander Bergs,Laurel Brinton Pdf

This volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history of different varieties of English. It explores language variation and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external historical developments of more than a dozen varieties of English.

Author : Elena Seoane,Cristina Suárez-Gómez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267061

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World Englishes by Elena Seoane,Cristina Suárez-Gómez Pdf

This book provides a collection of articles that reflect the current state of affairs in the blossoming field of World Englishes by bringing together several innovative synchronic and diachronic approaches. It contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the criteria that make a low-frequency item represent an incipient change and examines the suitability of the sociolinguistics of globalisation theory for the study of non-traditional avenues for the spread of vernacular varieties of English (recent migrations, the entertainment industry, the web). It explores crucial aspects of language change and dialect evolution through the study of grammatical phenomena and the particular linguistic and socio-historical factors conditioning them. Together with theoretical questions, the volume shows a concern for methodological issues, such as sociolinguistic interviews, map-task experiments, metalinguistic comments, acceptability judgments and corpus-based methods. This volume represents the latest trends in the field and will undoubtedly set the agenda for the years ahead.

Author : Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Anna Mauranen,Svetlana Vetchinnikova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110429657

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Changing English by Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Anna Mauranen,Svetlana Vetchinnikova Pdf

This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into contact with each other. The articles in this volume set out to combine all these perspectives in ways that give us a better understanding of the changing nature of English in the modern world.

Author : Jeffrey P. Williams,Edgar W. Schneider,Peter Trudgill,Daniel Schreier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107021204

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Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English by Jeffrey P. Williams,Edgar W. Schneider,Peter Trudgill,Daniel Schreier Pdf

This book documents the lesser-known varieties of English which have been overlooked and understudied within the canon of English linguistics.