Research Catalog

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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Details

Additional Authors

• Calabrese, Rita
• Chambers, J. K.
• Leitner, Gerhard, 1944-

Description

vii, 318 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Subjects

• Postcolonialism > English-speaking countries
• English language > Variation > 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