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Still more Englishes /
This monograph comprises eight papers, most of which originated as presentations given at international conferences or guest lectures. These papers deal with the problematic nature of English as a global language, and discuss what makes texts authentic and reliable for linguistic analysis, Scots in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
v. 28. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Still More Englishes; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Global English ; 1.1 The problem; 1.2 English on its way to become a world language; 1.3 The increase in numbers of speakers; 1.4 The growing functions of international English; 1.5 Global English; 1.6 Attitudes; 1.7 The quality of English and educational implications; 1.8 The future of English; 1.9 The effect of English on other languages; 2 The problem of authentic language; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 General concerns; 2.1.2 Lexicography.
- 2.1.3 Grammars2.2 Data from varieties with incipient or attempted standardization; 2.2.1 Old English; 2.2.2 Belizean and other Caribbean Creoles; 2.2.3 Text type expansion in Tok Pisin; 2.2.4 From Ulster Scots to Ullans; 2.3 Language death; 2.3.1 Introduction; 2.3.2 Norn; 2.3.3 Samaná English; 2.3.4 Cimbrian; 2.4 Dialect; 2.4.1 Historical texts; 2.4.2 Modern dialectology; 2.4.3 Sociolinguistics; 2.5 Pidgins and Creoles; 2.5.1 Introduction; 2.5.2 Jamaican; 2.5.3 Nigerian Pidgin; 2.5.4 Chinese Pidgin; 2.6 Historical texts; 2.6.1 Problems of transmission; 2.6.2 Historical semi-authentic texts.
- 2.6.3 Historizing English2.7 Literary texts; 2.7.1 Introduction; 2.7.2 Chaucer; 2.7.3 James I; 2.7.4 Renaissance 'dialect'; 2.7.5 18th-century Scots; 2.7.6 Black English; 2.7.7 Broken English; 2.7.8 Summary; 2.8 Epilogue; 3 Language and nation: linguistic identity in the history of English; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historical aspects: Britain and Ireland; 3.2.1 The Middle Ages; 3.2.2 England and Wales 1430-2000; 3.2.3 Scotland; 3.2.4 Ireland 1803-2000; 3.3 English overseas; 3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 The United States; 3.3.3 Canada; 3.3.4 The Caribbean; 3.3.5 West Africa; 3.3.6 South Africa.
- 3.3.7 India and Southeast Asia3.3.8 Papua New Guinea; 3.4 Reactions to English in non-anglophone societies; 3.5 Conclusion; 4 Ulster Scots
- a language?; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Criteria for 'language-ness'; 4.3 Are Low German and Jamaican useful parallels?; 4.4 The revival and revitalization of minority languages; 4.5 The demographic and sociohistorical position of Ulster Scots; 4.6 The codification and elaboration of Ullans; 4.7 The political implications; 4.8 The present discussion in Northern Ireland (1996-2000); 5 Scots
- the view from outside; 5.1 Introduction.
- 5.1.1 Attitudes in linguistics5.1.2 Ways to approach my topic; 5.2 The perception of Scots by English speakers; 5.2.1 Scotland and Scots as seen from England before 1603; 5.2.2 The Border ballads; 5.2.3 The 18th century; 5.2.4 The nineteenth century; 5.3 The contribution of outsiders; 5.3.1 Emigrant writing from overseas; 5.3.2 Scots as seen from non-anglophone countries; 6 English in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, The Philippines ... a second or a foreign language?; 6.1 Introduction: ENL vs. ESL vs. EFL; 6.2 The British in East Asia; 6.3 Singapore; 6.4 Hong Kong: from ESL to EFL?