Postcolonial English: Varieties around the World 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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165 It is indicative that in | 144 |
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The complexity of the sociolinguistic constellations in South Africa | 173 |
As before in the case of India the Dynamic Model | 175 |
This may in | 185 |
510 Kenya | 189 |
Thus during this period initial if highly restricted bilingualism | 191 |
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614 Secondly despite the limited impact of | 120 |
53 New Zealand | 127 |
Dialect mixture and koineization shaped early New Zealand English as | 128 |
respects New Zealand usage is found to be variable but | 131 |
Taiwan | 134 |
2534 Michieka 2005183 Descriptive work on properties of | 197 |
5123 Phase 3 late 1940s | 204 |
5141 Phase 1 1627ca 1650 | 219 |
5143 Phase 4 1961 | 225 |
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Greenland ICELAND | 239 |
the British who came later could build upon or inherit | 240 |
5164 Phase 4 ca 1920ca 1970 | 245 |
the emergence | 251 |
Lumbees do have a distinct ethnolinguistic identity which is expressed | 254 |
happened practically all the time koineization occurred so in a | 261 |
and of course Spanish place names in Florida including the | 264 |
in North America there prevails not only the | 270 |
632 Identity constructions | 275 |
633 Sociolinguistic conditions | 276 |
634 Linguistic effects | 278 |
differences between varieties | 282 |
Similar movements can be found elsewhere the Cajun Renaissance to | 294 |
Signaling endangered local identities through language | 297 |
a great expansion geographically and phonologically in the second half | 300 |
research eg Wolfram 1984 Leap 1993 identified unmarked tense in | 303 |
218 and enjoys strong covert prestige SJ Roberts | 307 |
7 Conclusion | 309 |
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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 country’s 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 koineization language contact language shift large numbers lexical linguistic major Malaysian English markers Mufwene Native Americans Nigerian norm observed one’s patterns PCEs percent phase Pidgin political pronunciation regional respect role settlement settlers Singapore Singaporean English Singlish situation slaves social society sociolinguistic South 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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Bibliographic information
| Title | Postcolonial English: Varieties around the World Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact |
| Author | Edgar W. Schneider |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1139463667, 9781139463669 |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax |
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