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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- English in Cyprus or Cyprus English; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; List of tables ; List of figures and charts ; List of maps and pictures ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Motivation for the research project ; 1.2 Scientific aims of the study ; 1.3 Theoretical framework ; 1.4 Methodological framework ; 1.5 Outline ; Chapter 2. English in Cyprus ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 Historical background ; 2.2.1 From the first settlements to the British occupation ; 2.2.2 British rule in Cyprus ; 2.2.3 Post-independence, Turkish invasion, and after.
- 2.3 Identity constructions 2.3.1 Resistance against foreign domination and British rule ; 2.3.2 The Turkish invasion as "Event X"? ; 2.4 Sociolinguistic conditions ; 2.4.1 Language use ; 2.4.2 Language attitudes ; 2.5 Summary and preliminary conclusions ; Chapter 3. World Englishes research and the case of Cyprus ; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 30 years of World Englishes research ; 3.2.1 The ENL-ESL-EFL distinction ; 3.2.2 Kachru's (1985b) Three Concentric Circles of World Englishes ; 3.2.3 Schneider's (2007) Dynamic Model ; 3.2.4 Terminology ; 3.3 Research into English in Cyprus/Cyprus English.
- 3.4 Learner Englishes vs. second-language varieties? 3.4.1 Learner English and interlanguage ; 3.4.2 Second-language varieties ; 3.4.3 "Bridging the paradigm gap" ; 3.4.4 Drawing some theoretical conclusions ; 3.5 Transfer and feature nativization: A crosslinguistic comparison of English and the Greek-Cypriot dialect ; 3.5.1 The nominal domain ; 3.5.2 The verbal domain ; 3.5.3 Prepositions ; 3.5.4 Hypotheses ; 3.6 Summary ; Chapter 4. Empirical study ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 CEDAR (Cyprus English Data Analysis and Research) ; 4.2.1 The interviews: Data collection ; 4.2.2 Participants.
- 4.3 Data transcription 4.4 Summary ; Chapter 5. Identifying characteristics of EiCy/CyE ; 5.1 Introduction ; 5.2 Methodology ; 5.3 Results ; 5.3.1 Phonological features ; 5.3.2 Morphosyntactic features ; 5.3.3 Lexical features ; 5.3.4 Lexicogrammatical features ; 5.3.5 Lexicosemantic feature ; 5.3.6 Pragmatic features ; 5.4 Summary ; Chapter 6. Linguistic characteristics of EiCy/CyE ; 6.1 Introduction ; 6.2 Methodology ; 6.2.1 Feature selection ; 6.2.2 Data coding ; 6.2.3 Frequency counts and data analysis ; 6.3 Results ; 6.3.1 The morphosyntactic domain ; 6.3.2 The lexicogrammatical domain.
- 6.3.3 The lexicosemantic domain 6.3.4 Summary and discussion ; 6.3.5 Statistical test for intergenerational differences ; 6.4 Summary ; Chapter 7. Assessing the variety status of EiCy/CyE ; 7.1 Introduction ; 7.2 EiCy/CyE: Second-language variety or learner English? ; 7.2.1 Spread of bilingualism and expansion in function ; 7.2.2 Nativization of linguistic structures ; 7.2.3 Institutionalization ; 7.2.4 Ways of language acquisition ; 7.2.5 EiCy/CyE
- a hybrid case ; 7.3 Placing EiCy/CyE on the map of World Englishes research.