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1 online resource. |
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Varieties of English around the world,
0172-7362 ;
volume G57
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Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 57.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
World Englishes; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; World Englishes today; 1. Introduction ; 2. Key publications, resources and models for the study of World Englishes ; 3. This volume ; References ; Beyond and between the "Three Circles": World Englishes research in the age of globalisation; 1. Introduction: English -- one of the world's 7,000 languages, and yet a language like no other? ; 2. Defining the place of English linguistics in the wider field of English Language Studies ; 3. Augmentation ; 4. Conclusion ; References. |
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Error, feature, (incipient) change -- or something else altogether?1. Introduction: The corpus linguist's 'lucky dip' ; 2. Metalinguistic comments and native speaker intuitions ; 2.1 Metalinguistic comments ; 2.2 Native speaker judgement survey ; 3. Corpus data ; 3.1 New Englishes ; 3.2 British and American English ; 3.3 Historical evidence ; 3.4 Dialects ; 3.5 Child language use ; 4. Discussion ; 4.1 Grammatical variation vs. spelling variation ; 4.2 be-been as a variant of the perfect: Error, feature, (incipient) change or something else?; 5. Concluding remarks and outlook. |
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Acknowledgements Sources ; References ; "He don't like football, does he?" A corpus-based study of third person singular don'; 1. Introduction ; 2. Don't versus doesn't: Origin and presence in different varieties of English ; 3. Methodology ; 4. Results ; 4.1 General frequency of don't versus doesn't in adults and teenagers ; 4.2 Tags versus non-tags in the language of adults and teenagers ; 4.3 Grammatical factors that condition the third person singular form don't; 4.4 Sociolinguistic factors ; 5. Summary and conclusions ; Sources ; References. |
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Standards of English in the Caribbean: History, attitudes, functions, features1. Introduction ; 2. History ; 3. Attitudes and functions ; 3.1 Attitudes: From 'bad' and 'proper' English to endonormative standards ; 3.2 Functions: Language use in the media and in education ; 4. Features ; 4.1 Written English in the Caribbean: Newspaper studies ; 4.2 Spoken English in the Caribbean: The English-creole continuum revisited ; 5. Conclusion ; References ; Overlap and divergence -- aspects of the present perfect in World Englishes; 1. Introduction ; 2. Data and methodology ; 3. A global perspective. |
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4. From the center 5. to the margins ; 6. The present perfect and models of World Englishes ; 7. Conclusion ; References ; Appendix ; (Semi- )modals of necessity in Hong Kong and Indian Englishes; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 The decline of English modal verbs ; 1.2 Modals and semi-modals in World Englishes ; 1.3 Aim and structure ; 2. Semi-modals of necessity in the three varieties ; 3. Semantic analysis of the (semi- )modals in BrE, HKE and IndE ; 3.1 Must: Semantic analysis ; 3.2 Have to, have got to and got to: Semantic analysis ; 3.3 Need (to): semantic analysis. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Variation -- English-speaking countries.
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English language -- Variation. |
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English-speaking countries. |
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English language -- Variation -- Foreign countries.
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English language -- Variation -- Foreign countries. |
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English language -- Dialects.
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English language -- Dialects. |
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Discourse analysis -- Social aspects.
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Discourse analysis -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Seoane, Elena, editor.
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Suárez Gómez, Cristina, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: World Englishes. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016] 9789027249173 (DLC) 2016005639 |
| ISBN |
9789027267061 (pdf) |
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9027267065 (pdf) |
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9789027249173 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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