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Variation and change in postcolonial contexts

Title
Variation and change in postcolonial contexts / edited by Rita Calabrese, J. K. Chambers and Gerhard Leitner.
Publication
  • Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Calabrese, Rita
  • Chambers, J. K.
  • Leitner, Gerhard, 1944-
Description
vii, 318 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Subject
  • English language > Variation > English-speaking countries
  • Postcolonialism > English-speaking countries
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : Post-colonial convergence and divergence / Rita Calabrese -- Convergence and divergence in Canadian English / J.K. Chambers --Saying "tomato" in postcolonial Canada / J.K. Chambers -- A corpus-based analysis of some Canadianisms of French origin in Canadian English / Mirko Casagranda -- Heritage Italian in Toronto : analysis of verb variation in a spoken corpus / Maria Parascandolo -- Towards a standard West African English / Gerhard Leitner -- A pilot study of acoustic features of word-final affricated /t/ and /ts/ in educated Ghanaian English / Thorsten Brato -- De, tone and property items in Nigerian Pidgin / Maria Mazzoli -- Postcolonial Englishes in an EFL context / Gerardo Mazzaferro -- Multilingualism and standardization in South Asia / Rita Calabrese --The dynamics of obligation and necessity in new Englishes : the case of have to in ICE / Gabriela Diaconu -- Language formation and change in a complex multilingual context / Rita Calabrese -- English in the island worlds / Gerhard Leitner -- Pluricentricity and multiple layers of English in different habitats / Gerhard Leitner -- Resignifying standard English in Marlene NourbSe Philip's "She tries her tongue, her silence softly breaks" / Roberto Masone -- Semantic change, intersubjectivity and social knowledge in The Sydney Morning Herald / Katherine E. Russo -- Global variants in new media discourse / Rita Calabrese -- From English to Twenglish : a new language variety? / Roberta Facchinetti and Paola-Maria Caleffi -- "Fulling di spies" : promoting bilingualism in Jamaican newspapers and blogs / Eleonora Federici and Manuela Coppola.
Call Number
JFD 16-906
ISBN
  • 1443876119
  • 9781443876117
OCLC
911594933
Title
Variation and change in postcolonial contexts / edited by Rita Calabrese, J. K. Chambers and Gerhard Leitner.
Publisher
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Calabrese, Rita, editor.
Chambers, J. K., editor.
Leitner, Gerhard, 1944- editor.
Research Call Number
JFD 16-906
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