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UNINA9910457750403321 |
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Titolo |
The typology of Asian Englishes [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lisa Lim, Nikolas Gisborne |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-31475-4 |
9786613314758 |
90-272-8453-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (128 p.) |
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Collana |
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Benjamins current topics; v. 33 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LimLisa |
GisborneNikolas <1966-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Asia |
English language - Variation - Asia |
English language - Social aspects - Asia |
English language - Study and teaching - Asia |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Typology of Asian Englishes; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; The typology of Asian Englishes; The Asian typology of English; Aspects of the morphosyntactic typology of Hong Kong English; Typological diversity in New Englishes; Thai English; Revisiting English prosody; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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When considering the structure of New Englishes which have evolved in - multilingual, mostly post-colonial - contexts of Asia (thus, Asian Englishes), the significant factors to be considered are: 1) the variety/ies of the English lexifier that entered the local context; 2) the nature of transmission of English to the local population; and 3) the local, i.e. substrate, languages of the community in which the New English emerges. This third factor is the focus of the five papers in this volume: they investigate the structure of Asian varieties of English by exploring the relationship between th |
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