World Englishes
Author: Mesthrie Rajend Bhatt Rakesh Mohan
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780511410123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the spread of English around the world from a social and linguistic perspective.
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The English Languages
Author: Thomas Burns McArthur
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-04-23
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780521481304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlural? monolithic? legion? - Tom McArthur explores the nature of English in its local and global contexts.
Language in South Africa
Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-10-17
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780521791052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.
Varieties of English
Author: Bernd Kortmann
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9783110196382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVol. 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.
Englishes
Author: Manfred Görlach
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1991-04-19
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9027277567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProblems 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.
Even More Englishes
Author: Manfred Görlach
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1998-05-15
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9027275564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven More Englishes comprises Manfred Görlach’s more recent papers devoted to general problems of the world language and to individual varieties. The collection starts with principal questions as to what can rightly be regarded as ‘English’, looks at specific features of emigrant Englishes and the value of individual features as evidence for linguistic geography — and for linguistic jokes. The functional range of Scots is traced through its history, and the question is raised whether we are justified to speak of ‘Celtic Englishes’ in Britain and Ireland. Two papers investigate the forms and functions of the world language in two African states, South Africa and Nigeria. A survey of new dictionaries of varieties of English and a discussion of whether pidgin and creole languages need different types of dictionaries are followed by a documentation of the history of the author’s projects in the field of English as a world language. Even More Englishes complements Englishes and More Englishes previously published in the Varieties of English Around the World book series.
More Englishes
Author: Manfred Görlach
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1995-10-05
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 902727634X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of eight papers is a continuation of Manfred Görlach’s previous collection “Englishes” with the author’s most influential writings in the field of varieties of English
The New Englishes
Author: John Talbot Platt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780710201942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Alchemy of English
Author: Braj B. Kachru
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780252061721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"What emerges from Kachru's fine work is the potential demarcation of an entire field, rather than merely the fruitful exploration of a topic. . . . [Kachru] is to be congratulated for having taken us as far as he already has and for doing so in so stimulating and so productive a fashion." -- World Englishes "A potent addition to theoretical, sociolinguistic, attitudinal and methodological explorations vis-à-vis the spread and functions of, and innovations in, English from the viewpoint of a non-Western scholar." -- The Language Teacher Winner of the Joint First Prize, Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Competition of the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, 1987
Language and Ethnicity
Author: Carmen Fought
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-08-31
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1139458175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is ethnicity? Is there a 'white' way of speaking? Why do people sometimes borrow features of another ethnic group's language? Why do we sometimes hear an accent that isn't there? This lively overview, first published in 2006, reveals the fascinating relationship between language and ethnic identity, exploring the crucial role it plays in both revealing a speaker's ethnicity and helping to construct it. Drawing on research from a range of ethnic groups around the world, it shows how language contributes to the social and psychological processes involved in the formation of ethnic identity, exploring both the linguistic features of ethnic language varieties and also the ways in which language is used by different ethnic groups. Complete with discussion questions and a glossary, Language and Ethnicity will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, as well as anybody interested in ethnic issues, language and education, inter-ethnic communication, and the relationship between language and identity.
