World Englishes : the study of new linguistic varieties / Rajend Mesthrie and Rakesh M. Bhatt.
"The spread of English around the world has been and continues to be both rapid and unpredictable. World Englishes deals with this inescapable result of colonisation and globalisation from a social and linguistic perspective. The main focus of the book is on the second-language varieties of Eng...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Key topics in sociolinguistics.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "The spread of English around the world has been and continues to be both rapid and unpredictable. World Englishes deals with this inescapable result of colonisation and globalisation from a social and linguistic perspective. The main focus of the book is on the second-language varieties of English that have developed in the former British colonies of East and West Africa, the Caribbean, South and South-East Asia. The book provides a historical overview of the common circumstances that gave rise to these varieties, and a detailed account of their recurrent similarities in structure, patterns of usage, vocabulary and accents. Also discussed are debates about language in education, the rise of English in China and Western Europe, and other current developments in a world of global travel and migration."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521793416 9780521793414 0521797330 9780521797337 |