The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction

Edited By Daniel Sch

ISBN 10: 0521883962 / ISBN 13: 9780521883962

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Documents the linguistic properties of lesser-known varieties of English, showing their relevance for language spread and change. Editor(s): Trudgill, Peter; Schneider, Edgar W.; Schreier, Daniel; Williams, Jeffrey P. Series: Studies in English Language. Num Pages: 386 pages, 1 b/w illus. 25 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 736. . 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

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• Titolo: The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521883962
• ISBN 13: 9780521883962
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: prima edizione
• Condizione: New

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Documents the linguistic properties of lesser-known varieties of English, showing their relevance for language spread and change.

Informazioni sugli autori

Daniel Schreier is Professor of English at the University of Zurich. He has taught and lectured in New Zealand, Germany and in the USA. His previous publications include Isolation and Language Change (2003), Consonant Change in English Worldwide (2005) and St Helenian English (2008).

Peter Trudgill is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Agder. He has carried out research on dialects of English, Norwegian, Greek, Albanian and Spanish and has written and edited more than thirty books on sociolinguistics and dialectology including Sociolinguistic Variation and Change (2002), A Glossary of Sociolinguistics (2003) and New Dialect Formation (2004).

Edgar W. Schneider is Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg. He is the editor of the scholarly journal English World-Wide and its associated book series, Varieties of English around the World. His previous publications include Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data (1996) and Postcolonial English (Cambridge, 2007).

Jeffrey P. Williams is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Texas Tech University. He previously taught at the University of Sydney and has conducted fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, the American Southwest and most recently with Montagnard refugees in North Carolina, USA. He was the co-editor of Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean (2003).