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1 online resource. |
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Studies in Language Companion Series ; volume 177
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 177.
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"The selection of articles presented in this volume springs from the Third Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English that took place in Zurich, Switzerland, on 24-27 August 2014, and in particular from the special theme of the conference "Building Bridges Inter- and Intradisciplinary Research." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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New Approaches to English Linguistics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Corpus linguistics; 2. Global English; 3. Cognitive linguistics; 4. Second language acquisition; 5. The individual contributions; Acknowledgements; References; Accommodation, dialect contact and grammatical variation; 1. Introduction: Accommodation and contact; 2. Aims of the study; 3. The Anglophone community in Japan; 4. Methodology; 4.1 Informants and data; 4.2 Tokens and analysis; 4.3 Social networks; 5. Results; 5.1 Overall distribution of variants of verbs of obligation. |
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5.3 Impact of the speaker's social networks on variationAcknowledgment; References; Patterns of linguistic globalization; 1. Introduction; 2. The macro-perspective: Aggregative analysis; 2.1 Preparing and transforming the data; 2.2 Applications; 2.3 Limitations; 3. Zooming in: Testing individual items and social factors; 3.1 Regional means; 3.2 Application of global mixed-effects linear regression models; 3.3 Tracing age effects in individual items; 3.4 Identifying globalizing lexical items in L1 and L2 Englishes; 4. Conclusion; References. |
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The substitutability and diffusion of want to and wanna in world Englishes1. Introduction; 2. Method; 2.1 Data appraisal; 2.2 Sociolinguistic appraisal; 2.3 Want to/wanna and distinctions between standard and informal grammar; 3. Results: Phonological features of standard want to, informal wanna; 4. Results: Grammatical features of standard want to, informal wanna; 4.1 Categories of mood; 4.2 Want to and wanna in relative and subordinate clauses; 4.3 Functional shift; 5. Results: The semantics of want to and wanna; 5.1 Want to and wanna in the sense of "intention." |
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5.2 Want to and wanna in the sense of "obligation"5.3 Want to and wanna in the sense of the "hypothetical"; 5.4 Want to associated with probability; 5.5 Want to and wanna in figurative use; 6. On the pragmatics of want to/wanna; 6.1 Uses of want to/wanna and the speaker's projections; 6.2 From experience or counsel to the advisory use of want to and wanna; 7. Discussion; References; Dialect contact influences on the use of get and the get-passive; 1. Introduction; 2. Token frequencies of get and its word-forms; 2.1 Overall token frequencies of get across varieties. |
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2.2 The distribution of the word-forms of get across varieties3. The get-passive; 3.1 The nature of the (get- ) passive; 3.2 Factors influencing the variation of the get-passive; 3.2.1 Prescriptivism; 3.2.2 Colloquialisation; 3.2.3 Substrate influence; 3.2.4 Mode; 3.3 The special meaning and use of the get-passive; 3.4 Summary of the hypotheses; 3.5.2 Mode; 4. Conclusion; References; Future time marking in spoken Ghanaian English; 1. Introduction; 2. Future time marking in English: Previous research; 3. Ghanaian English: Theoretical background and data; 4. Counting and coding the future. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
English language -- Globalization.
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English language -- Globalization. |
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English language -- Variation.
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English language -- Variation. |
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Intercultural communication.
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Intercultural communication. |
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Timofeeva, Olga, editor.
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Gardner, Anne-Christine, editor.
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Honkapohja, Alpo, editor.
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Chevalier, Sarah, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: International Society for the Linguistics of English. Conference (3rd : 2014: Zurich, Switzerland) New approaches to English linguistics Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016] 9789027259424 (DLC) 2016026252 |
ISBN |
9789027266811 (pdf) |
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9027266816 (pdf) |
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9789027259424 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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