Dialects of English [DOE] – serie
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New York City English
Häftad, 2015
561 kr
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New York City English is one of the most recognizable of US dialects, and research on it launched modern sociolinguistics. Yet the city’s speech has never before received a comprehensive description and analysis. In this book, Michael Newman examines the differences and similarities among the ways …
Pitkern-Norf’k
The Language of Pitcairn Island and Norfolk Island
Inbunden, 2020
1756 kr
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This book tells the story of the language of the Bounty mutineers and their Polynesian consorts that developed on remote Pitcairn Island in the late 18th century. Most of their descendants subsequently relocated to Norfolk Island. It is an in-depth study of the complex linguistic, ecological and …
East Midlands English
Av Natalie Braber, Jonnie Robinson
Inbunden, 2018
1461 kr
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This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are …
Australian Aboriginal English
Change and Continuity in an Adopted Language
Inbunden, 2018
1977 kr
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The dialect of English which has developed in Indigenous speech communities in Australia, while showing some regional and social variation, has features at all levels of linguistic description, which are distinct from those found in Australian English and also is associated with distinctive …
Micronesian Englishes
Av David Britain, Kazuko Matsumoto m. fl.
Inbunden, 2028
1716 kr
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Despite increasing interest both in the nativisation of ‘world’ Englishes and in the study of ‘lesser-known’ varieties, some English-speaking areas are still entirely unexplored. One such area is Micronesia. English became a/the official language of the various Micronesian islands between 1892 and …
East Anglian English
Inbunden, 2021
1388 kr
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This book is the first full-scale scientific study of East Anglian English. The author is a native East Anglian sociolinguist and dialectologist who has devoted decades to the study of the speechways of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. He examines their relationships to other varieties …
Welsh English
Av Heli Paulasto, Rob Penhallurick m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
280 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive, research-based description of the development, structure, and use of Welsh English, a contact-induced variety of English spoken in the British Isles.Present-day accents and dialects of Welsh English are the combined outcome of historical language shift from …
Nigerian English
Av David Jowitt
Häftad, 2020
324 kr
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Although the past few decades have witnessed growing interest in varieties of English around the world, no study of the Nigerian variety intended for the international market has yet been published.Making use of well-known paradigms, the book will relate Nigerian English, as a ‘Second Language’ …
Kenyan English
Häftad, 2021
324 kr
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English 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 …
Irish English Volume 2: The Republic of Ireland
Inbunden, 2013
2125 kr
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This volume continues the Dialects of English series, and complements Irish English volume 1: Northern Ireland, by Karen Corrigan. Focusing on Irish English in the Republic of Ireland, the book starts by exploring the often oppositional roles of national language development and globalisation in …
Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese
Av Barbara Johnstone, Daniel Baumgardt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1844 kr
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Linguists have sporadically noted peculiarities of pronunciation, lexis and morphosyntax in the speech of European Americans in the Pittsburgh area, and Pittsburgh speech, locally known as “Pittsburghese”, has been a topic of discussion in the Pittsburgh area for decades. This variety has never …
New York City English
Inbunden, 2014
1844 kr
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New York City English is one of the most recognizable of US dialects, and research on it launched modern sociolinguistics. Yet the city’s speech has never before received a comprehensive description and analysis. In this book, Michael Newman examines the differences and similarities among the ways …
Welsh English
Av Heli Paulasto, Rob Penhallurick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1733 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive, research-based description of the development, structure, and use of Welsh English, a contact-induced variety of English spoken in the British Isles.Present-day accents and dialects of Welsh English are the combined outcome of historical language shift from …
Malaysian English
Inbunden, 2026
1754 kr
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This is the first book solely dedicated to the systematic description of the linguistic and discourse features of Malaysian English. The descriptions are based on research done by the author and data from the Corpus of Spoken Malaysian English. The book also discusses current trends in the use of …
Kenyan English
Inbunden, 2019
1844 kr
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English 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 …
Falkland Island English
Av David Britain, Hannah Hedegard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1754 kr
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This is the first book length account of the history and structure of the English of the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. The book begins with a sociolinguistic history, considering the Anglophone period since 1833, settlement history, present-day mobility, …
Tongan English
Av Danielle Tod
Inbunden, 2025
1791 kr
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This book documents the sound, structure, history and status of Tongan English, a previously undescribed variety of English in the South Pacific. Description is based on empirical analysis of a large corpus of spoken data and ethnographically informed observations of language use in the community. …
