Postcolonial English: Varieties around the WorldCambridge University Press, 17/05/2007 The global spread of English has resulted in the emergence of a diverse range of postcolonial varieties around the world. Postcolonial English provides a clear and original account of the evolution of these varieties, exploring the historical, social and ecological factors that have shaped all levels of their structure. It argues that while these Englishes have developed new and unique properties which differ greatly from one location to another, their spread and diversification can in fact be explained by a single underlying process, which builds upon the constant relationships and communication needs of the colonizers, the colonized, and other parties. Outlining the stages and characteristics of this process, it applies them in detail to English in sixteen different countries across all continents as well as, in a separate chapter, to a history of American English. Of key interest to sociolinguists, dialectologists, historical linguists and syntacticians alike, this book provides a fascinating new picture of the growth and evolution of English around the globe. |
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... colonial and postcolonial history , most notably the spread of the British Empire . Crystal ( 1997 ) explains the role of English as the leading world language through a series of subsequent but rather coincidental processes : English ...
... colonial and postcolonial history , most notably the spread of the British Empire . Crystal ( 1997 ) explains the role of English as the leading world language through a series of subsequent but rather coincidental processes : English ...
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... colonial and postcolonial history. I am concerned with developmental phenomena characteristic of colonial and the early phases of postcolonial histories until the maturation and separation of these dialects as newly recognized and self ...
... colonial and postcolonial history. I am concerned with developmental phenomena characteristic of colonial and the early phases of postcolonial histories until the maturation and separation of these dialects as newly recognized and self ...
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... colonialism and on all continents . Hence , it is necessary to look closely into the sociohistorical contexts of their emergence , their " ecologies " ( Mufwene 2001b ) . Different scenarios emerged , and they account for persistent ...
... colonialism and on all continents . Hence , it is necessary to look closely into the sociohistorical contexts of their emergence , their " ecologies " ( Mufwene 2001b ) . Different scenarios emerged , and they account for persistent ...
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... colonial expansion settlers consider themselves outpost representatives of a distant homeland , and the burden of linguistic adaptation and , sometimes , language shift rests largely upon the indigenous population . In the long run ...
... colonial expansion settlers consider themselves outpost representatives of a distant homeland , and the burden of linguistic adaptation and , sometimes , language shift rests largely upon the indigenous population . In the long run ...
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... colonial history . All I need to state is they are not my primary concern in focusing upon linguistic developments . Even while I describe macro - sociolinguistic processes this book is not meant to address the issue of the politics of ...
... colonial history . All I need to state is they are not my primary concern in focusing upon linguistic developments . Even while I describe macro - sociolinguistic processes this book is not meant to address the issue of the politics of ...
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accepted adopted ADS strand African Afrikaans American English attitude Australia Australian English basilectal bilingualism British English Canadian Canadian English Caribbean characteristic colonial contexts Creole creolization cultural dialect Dictionary distinctive documented Dynamic Model early emergence endonormative ethnic European example exonormative orientation formal forms of English function grammatical groups homogeneity Hong Kong identity construction IDG strand immigrants important independence Indian English indigenous languages indigenous population innovations Jamaican Jamaican Creole Kachru koinéization language contact language shift large numbers lexical linguistic major Malaysian English markers Mufwene Native Americans Nigerian norm observed patterns PCEs percent phase Pidgin plantation political pronunciation regional respect role settlement settlers Singapore Singaporean English Singlish situation slaves social society sociolinguistic South Africa speakers speech spread standard status STL strand structural nativization symbolic tion traditional Trudgill twentieth century types typically usage varieties of English verbs vernacular whites words Zealand Zealand English
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الصفحة 277 - As an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we are and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard, for the taste of her writers is already corrupted and her language on the decline.
الصفحة 269 - Though the inhabitants of this Country are composed of different Nations and different languages, yet it is very remarkable that they in general speak better English than the English do.
الصفحة 287 - ... education. Noah Webster's blueback speller and William Holmes McGuffey's series of readers became all-time best-sellers, and the possession of certificates and diplomas became a passport to success. In the absence of a well-defined elite (except in parts of the South and some of the older cultural centers), it is not surprising that a citizen population that often sought salvation from the literal (though translated) message of the Bible should seek its path to education in the literal message...
الصفحة 185 - To my compatriots, I have no hesitation in saying that each one of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld. Each time one of us touches the soil of this land, we feel a sense of personal renewal.
الصفحة 297 - When a man says [rat] or [huus], he is unconsciously establishing the fact that he belongs to the island : that he is one of the natives to whom the island really belongs.
الصفحة 290 - English people; but there are fewer local peculiarities of form and articulation in our vast extent of territory than on the comparatively narrow soil of Great Britain. In spite of disturbing and distracting causes, English is more emphatically one in America than in its native land...
الصفحة 277 - English, yet several circumstances render a future separation of the American tongue from the English, necessary and unavoidable. The vicinity of the European nations, with the uninterrupted communication in peace, and the changes of dominion in war, are gradually assimilating their respective languages.