Variation and Change in Postcolonial Contexts
1st Edition
Published on 13. October 2015
325 pages
978-1-4438-8493-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume addresses recent issues concerning language change and standardization in postcolonial settings. The book brings together experts from North America, Africa, Asia and the insular areas of Australia and Trinidad and Tobago, and discusses aspects of language variation in the emergence of new varieties. The approaches range from linguistic diagnostics and related methodologies to the most accredited interpretative theories on the evolution of New Englishes. The book includes a section on emerging varieties of English in new media, and special focus has been given to those new varieties of Philippine and Nigerian English spoken in a non-canonical post-colonial context represented by the city of Turin, Italy. The result is a collection of studies that illuminate issues of language variability from different perspectives in order to contribute to the lengthy debate on language contact, diversification, speciation and standardization.
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Rita Calabrese | J. K. Chambers | Gerhard Leitner
Variation and Change in Postcolonial Contexts
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Section I
- Convergence and Divergence in Canadian English
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Section II
- Towards a Standard West African English
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Section III
- Multilingualism and Standardization in South Asia
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Section IV
- English in the Island Worlds
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Section V
- Global Variants in New Media Discourse
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
