Englishes
Studies in varieties of English 1984-1988
Published on 19. April 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
211 pages
978-90-272-4867-1 (ISBN)
Description
Problems of how to describe and explain the forms and functions of English outside Britain and the United States (and of varieties within the two countries) have become central for English linguistics over the past twenty years. The present collection combines 8 of Gorlach's major articles in the field written between 1984 and 1988. They range from methodological and state-of-the-art accounts to treatments of "colonial lag", from lexicographical problems, and translations into pidgins and creoles to papers focussing on individual regions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-4867-1 (9789027248671)
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Content
1. Preface by Peter Trudgill; 2. English as a world language; 3. the state of the art; 4. Lexicographical problems of new Englishes; 5. Jamaica and Scotland; 6. bilingual or bidialectal?; 7. Colonial lag? The alleged conservative character of American English and other "colonial" varieties; 8. The identity of Canadian English; 9. English in Africa; 10. African English?; 11. Australian English: standards, stigmata, stereotypes and statistics; 12. Max and Moritz in black and white; 13. problems of "creolizing" a German children's book; 14. References; 15. Indexes