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How language works
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ISBN: 9780141015521 0141015527 Year: 2007 Publisher: London New York Toronto : Penguin Books,

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In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we talk shows not just how old we are but where we're from and even who we want to be.


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The wider scope of English : papers in English language and literature from the Bamberg conference of the International Association of University Professors of English
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ISBN: 3631555091 Year: 2006 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Bern Bruxelles : Peter Lang,

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From a diachronic point of view, two linguistic contributions deal with grammaticalization and iconicity and with metaphorical aspects of compounding. The other two linguistic papers are related to the present. One offers a critique of perceptual dialectology and the other is concerned with recent developments in computer cartography. The contributions in the domains of literary and cultural studies demonstrate the wide extension of the field of enquiry and of current methods. Historically, they reach from the Old English period to the present day, and systematically, from new approaches in the interpretation of particular works through overviews over the regional validity of modes of literary aesthetics to recent innovations in literary theory and narratology.


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Varieties of English : a typological approach
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ISBN: 9780521186933 9780521764964 9781139028240 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The variability of current world Englishes
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ISBN: 9783110352108 9783110394917 9783110339673 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin : de Gruyter Mouton,

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Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations. The book's chapters supply descriptions of Jamaican English in Toronto, English as an L2 in a South African mining township, Chinese and English contact in Singapore, unexpected, emergent variants in Canadian English, and innovations in the English of West Virginia. Further, the book offers some perspective on internet English as well as on abiding uniformities in the lexicon and grammar of standard varieties. In the analyses of this heterogeneous growth such considerations as speakers' sociolinguistic profiles, phonological, morpho-syntactic, and lexical variables, frequencies, and typological patterns provide ample insight in the current status of English both in oral and electronic communities. The opening chapter presents a theoretical framework that argues for linguistic typology as conceptually resourceful in accommodating techniques of analysis and in distinguishing the wide arrays of English found throughout the globe. One clear function for Faces of English is that of a catalyst: to spur studies of diversities in English (and in other languages), to suggest approaches to adapt, to invite counterargument and developments in analysis.


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The new uses of English "like" and French "genre" : a corpus-based, contrastive study
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Year: 2016

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Areal Features of the Anglophone World
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ISBN: 9783110278842 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berlin de Gruyter Mouton

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Variation and change in English : an introduction
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ISBN: 9783503155071 3503155074 Year: 2014 Volume: 39 Publisher: Berlin : Erich Schmidt Verlag,

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A comparative analysis of Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin English
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ISBN: 9781478158905 Year: 2012 Publisher: [Lieu de publication non identifié] : [éditeur non identifié],

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Historical dialectology : regional and social
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ISBN: 3110115506 3111787656 3110848139 0899254349 9783110115505 Year: 1988 Volume: 37 Publisher: Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter,

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In this volume of 29 papers, readers interested in language variation and historical linguistics will find interesting theoretical proposals as well as suggestions concerning ways of approaching previously unsolved empirical problems in the field. The papers deal with various aspects of historical regional dialectology, and some border on the issue of dialectology and linguistic change. Although many deal with English, a number discuss Romance languages in general as well as Norwegian, German, relic languages of the eastern Alpine region, Coptic, and Fox. Some are devoted to more general issues. The language specific contributions also often cover areas of a more general nature. The results indicate new vistas for further productive research in the area of historical dialectology.


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Global Englishes in Asian contexts : current and future debates
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ISBN: 9780230221031 Year: 2009 Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,

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