English in the Caribbean : Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad /

"This book presents an in-depth study of English as spoken in two major anglophone Caribbean territories, Jamaica and Trinidad. Based on data from the International Corpus of English, it focuses on variation at the morphological and syntactic level between the educated standard and more informa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deuber, Dagmar
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Colección:Studies in English language.
Temas:
Caribbean literature (English) > History and criticism.
Littérature antillaise (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Caribbean literature (English)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The background and context of English in Jamaica and Trinidad
  • 3. The sociolinguistics of style and the Creole continuum
  • 4. Data and methodology
  • 5. Style in Jamaican English: analysis of conversations
  • 6. Style and standard in Trinidadian English: analysis of four text categories
  • 7. The modal verbs can/could and will/would in Caribbean and other varieties of English
  • 8. Conclusion.

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