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The syntax of spoken Indian English /
This book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian English that are generally considered as 'typical', but have never before been studied empirically. Drawing on authentic spoken data from the International Corpus of English, Indian component, the book focuses on th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Varieties of English Around the World.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian English that are generally considered as 'typical', but have never before been studied empirically. Drawing on authentic spoken data from the International Corpus of English, Indian component, the book focuses on the domain of discourse organization and examines the form, function and distribution of invariant tags such as isn't it and no/na, non-initial existential there, focus markers only and itself, topicalization and left-dislocation. By focusing on multilingual speakers' i. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027273093 902727309X 1283894904 9781283894906 9027249059 9789027249050 |