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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 December 2009
      17 May 2007
      ISBN:
      9780511618901
      9780521831406
      9780521539012
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511618901
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.726kg, 384 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 384 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
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    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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    'This book is without doubt an invaluable companion for not only linguists but also culturalists, anthropologists, sociologists, political analysts … and other scholars interested in language spread, contact and change.'

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