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Corporate Author International Society for the Linguistics of English (Conference) (3rd : 2014: Zurich, Switzerland)

Title New approaches to English linguistics : building bridges / edited by Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Sarah Chevalier.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Studies in Language Companion Series ; volume 177
Studies in language companion series ; v. 177.
Note "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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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.
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."
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.
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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Subject English language -- Globalization.
English language -- Globalization.
English language -- Variation.
English language -- Variation.
Intercultural communication.
Intercultural communication.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Timofeeva, Olga, editor.
Gardner, Anne-Christine, editor.
Honkapohja, Alpo, editor.
Chevalier, Sarah, editor.
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
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