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English in Cyprus or Cyprus English : an empirical investigation of variety status /
This volume provides the first-ever comprehensive analysis of a potential variety of English, spoken in the Greek part of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Despite the fact that Cyprus was a British colony from 1878 to 1960, the status of the English language spoken there has not yet been discusse...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
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| Colección: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
v. 46. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This volume provides the first-ever comprehensive analysis of a potential variety of English, spoken in the Greek part of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Despite the fact that Cyprus was a British colony from 1878 to 1960, the status of the English language spoken there has not yet been discussed systematically within the framework of World Englishes. To determine whether English in Cyprus has second-language variety status or should rather be considered as learner English, the monograph investigates its historical, sociopolitical and sociolinguistic background and, drawing on a corpus of. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (262 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027272171 9027272174 1299631231 9781299631236 9027249067 9789027249067 |