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Author: Axel Bohmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-21
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1108485456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a comprehensive overview of how variation in English world-wide is structured and the factors that motivate this structure.
Author: Alfred Buregeya
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-08-05
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 150150097X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish in Kenya is a stable post-colonial variety that is used as an inter-ethnic lingua franca in private domains, is the medium of instruction as well as the language spoken in parliament and court rooms. Yet so far no comprehensive research monograph on Kenyan English has been published that surveys its characteristic linguistic features. The present book closes this gap by giving a full description of the characteristic linguistic features of Kenyan English. The book provides an in-depth overview of Kenyan English phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics and also gives a meticulous account of the diachronic evolution of this post-colonial variety.
Author: Sidney Greenbaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780198235828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe International Corpus of English is a unique linguistic and sociolinguistic project. When complete it will consist of fifteen or more parallel corpora of spoken and written English drawn from countries where English is either a majority first language or an official second language. Part I introduces the ICE project and a sub-project that investigates writing by advanced learners of English. Part II describes in detail the design of the corpora, the markup systems for speech and writing, the ICE tagset and parsing scheme, and the software packages that have been developed for automatic tagging and parsing, and for retrieving lexical, grammatical, and sociolinguistic information. Part III discusses problems in compiling the corpora, exemplified by the experience of teams in New Zealand, East Africa, and Hong Kong. Finally, Part IV considers some of the applications envisaged for the corpora: research in linguistics, sociolinguistics, and natural language processing; teaching, language planning, and the establishment of norms for teaching and examining in second-language countries.
Author: Richard Hogg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-03-17
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1139451294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world language, is a subject of major importance to linguists and historians. In this book, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the English language, outlining its development over fifteen centuries. With an emphasis on more recent periods, every key stage in the history of the language is covered, with full accounts of standardisation, names, the distribution of English in Britain and North America, and its global spread. New historical surveys of the crucial aspects of the language are presented, and historical changes that have affected English are treated as a continuing process, helping to explain the shape of the language today. This complete and up-to-date history of English will be indispensable to all advanced students, scholars and teachers in this prominent field.
Author: Andy Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-04-19
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521851473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe model of English that should be used in classrooms has long been a subject of debate. This book (with an accompanying audio CD) describes selected varieties of World Englishes, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of selecting a particular variety from the point of view of both teachers and learners. It aims to examine and re-evaluate concepts such as 'standard', 'variety', 'native speaker' and 'non-native speaker', and to validate the role played by multilingual and multicultural English language teachers, arguing that context and learner needs should determine the variety to be taught.
Author: Paul Lindsay
Publisher:
Published: 2013-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781932383065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTeach English worldwide with this practical introduction to the field. Specially designed for those thinking about teaching English, planning to take a TESOL training course, or just starting work in a language school, this user-friendly resource adds a bundle of enjoyment to the process. The 21 chapters cover all the essentials, including answers to basic questions about language teaching; how to manage your classroom, plan lessons, and use textbooks ; methods and ideas for teaching listening, speaking, reading, and writing; understanding of basic grammar verb forms; a wealth of knowledge and activities for using visual aids, games, drama, and songs; awareness of pronunciation and the International Phonetic Alphabet; suggestions on correcting errors and testing; and a reference section featuring a first lesson plan and a placement test. Each unit features tasks for the reader and wraps up with review questions and a Further Reading list. This is a basic "must" to pack in your suitecase as you prepare to teach.
Author: Peter Collins
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789027203755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. The book is divided into two parts, with ten chapters on 'Inner Circle' varieties such as Australian, Canadian, and Irish English, and eight on 'Outer Circle' varieties such as Philippine, Indian, and Nigerian English. Contributors examine a range of topics including the progressive aspect, modal auxiliaries, do-support, verb morphology, and quotatives, using a wide variety of corpus resources. Overarching research questions addressed include the following: Do diachronic tendencies observed in a particular variety converge with, diverge from, or run in parallel with, those in the parent variety? What are the possible causes of changes observed (e.g. English teaching traditions, Americanisation, internal changes in registers)? This book will appeal to linguists, particularly those interested in grammatical description, corpus linguistics and World Englishes.
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.
Author: Rosemary C. Salomone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 0190625619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of languageSpoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca- - its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric "riseof English" has many obvious benefits to communication. Tourists can travel abroad with greater ease. Political leaders can directly engage their counterparts. Researchers can collaborate with foreign colleagues. Business interests can flourish in the global economy.But the rise of English has very real downsides as well. In Europe, imperatives of political integration and job mobility compete with pride in national language and heritage. In the United States and England, English isolates us from the cultural and economic benefits of speaking other languages.And in countries like India, South Africa, Morocco, and Rwanda, it has stratified society along lines of English proficiency.In The Rise of English, Rosemary Salomone offers a commanding view of the unprecedented spread of English and the far-reaching effects it has on global and local politics, economics, media, education, and business. From the inner workings of the European Union to linguistic battles over influence inAfrica, Salomone draws on a wealth of research to tell the complex story of English - and, ultimately, to argue for English not as a force for domination but as a core component of multilingualism and the transcendence of linguistic and cultural borders.
Author: Mirka Honkanen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2020-08-15
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9027260885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorld Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their negotiations of identity and authenticity on a Nigerian web forum. Based on a large corpus of informal, multilingual, interactive, online writing, this book describes how diasporic Nigerians employ African-American Vernacular English, Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin, and ethnic Nigerian languages in an online community of practice. The project combines corpus linguistic methods—relying on a corpus management tool custom-made for web forum data—with ethnographically-informed qualitative analyses of morphosyntactic, lexical, and orthographic features, and immigrants’ language attitudes and ideologies. It is relevant particularly for linguists and other social scientists interested in World Englishes, the sociolinguistics of globalization and computer-mediated communication, corpus linguistics, and pidgin and creole languages
