Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English write by Pam Peters. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology brings together fresh corpus-based research by international scholars. It contrasts southern and northern hemisphere usage on variable elements of morphology and syntax. The nineteen invited papers include topics such as irregular verb parts, pronouns, modal and quasimodal verbs, the perfect tense, the progressive aspect, and mandative subjunctives. Lexicogrammatical elements are discussed: light verbs (e.g. "have a look)," informal quantifiers (e.g. "heaps of)," "no"-collocations, concord with "government "and other group nouns, alternative verb complementation (as with "help, prevent)," zero complementizers and connective adverbs (e.g. "however)." Selected information-structuring devices are analyzed, e.g. "there is/are," "like" as a discourse marker, final "but "as a turn-taking device, and swearwords. Australian and New Zealand use of hypocoristics and changes in gendered expressions are also analyzed. The two varieties pattern together in some cases, in others they diverge: Australian English is usually more committed to colloquial variants in speech and writing. The book demonstrates linguistic endonormativity in these two southern hemisphere Englishes.
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Languages and Linguistics of Australia write by Harold Koch. This book was released on 2014-08-19. The Languages and Linguistics of Australia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other contact varieties are also discussed.
Chicano English
Chicano English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chicano English write by Joyce Penfield. This book was released on 1985-01-01. Chicano English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chicano English can rightly be said to be, in its different varieties, the most widespread ethnic dialect of U.S. English, spoken by large sections of the population in the American Southwest. It represents a type of speech referred to by E. Haugen as a bilingual dialect, having developed out of a stable Spanish-English setting. In their book, the authors provide a comprehensive examination of Chicano English, devoting particular emphasis to the social factors determining its characteristic features and uses. Special attention is given to the question of homogeneity as against ordered variation within Chicano English, to features of pronunciation and grammar, to its communicative functions, to the evaluative attitudes of its speakers and others and, finally, to its uses in literature and the media. In spite of its importance, Chicano English has been insufficiently documented; this monograph is intended to contribute towards redressing the balance.
Changing English
Changing English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing English write by Markku Filppula. This book was released on 2017-10-10. Changing English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into contact with each other. The articles in this volume set out to combine all these perspectives in ways that give us a better understanding of the changing nature of English in the modern world.
World Englishes Problems, Properties and Prospects
World Englishes Problems, Properties and Prospects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Englishes Problems, Properties and Prospects write by Thomas Hoffmann. This book was released on 2009-09-23. World Englishes Problems, Properties and Prospects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. World Englishes is a vibrant research field that has attracted scholars from many different linguistic subdisciplines. Emphasizing the common ground of all research on World Englishes, the 22 articles in this collected volume, selected from more than a hundred papers presented at the 2007 conference of the International Association for World Englishes in Regensburg, cover a broad range of topics which together reflect the state of the art of research in this field. The volume focuses on regions as diverse as Africa, the Caribbean, the Antipodes and Asia, but also promotes a globally comparative perspective by analyzing selected characteristics of the English language across a wide range of varieties. Methodologically, a number of different approaches are applied, including corpus linguistic studies, socio-phonetics as well as historical discourse analysis. Due to its wide scope, the book is of interest not only to World Englishes scholars but also to sociolinguists as well as applied, contact or corpus linguists.
