Cargando…
World Englishes : new theoretical and methodological considerations /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2016]
|
| Colección: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
v. 57. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.