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Autore |
Tridgill Peter |
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Titolo |
New-Dialect Formation [[electronic resource] ] : The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-522043-9 |
1-280-64316-1 |
9786610643165 |
0-7486-2641-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language |
English language - Dialects |
Language in contact |
Language / Linguistics |
English Language |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
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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 contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Maps; Vowel Charts; Chapter 1 – Colonial dialects; Chapter 2 – Colonial lag; Chapter 3 – New-dialect formation Stage I; Chapter 4 – Stage II; Chapter 5 – Stage III; Chapter 6 – Drift; Chapter 7 – Determinism; References; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian French and North American English, but concentrates on Australian and South African English, with a particular emphasis on the development of the newest major variety of the language, New Zealand English. Peter Trudgill argues that the linguistic growth of these new varieties of English was |
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