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UNINA9910786966903321 |
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Autore |
Buschfeld Sarah |
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Titolo |
English in Cyprus or Cyprus English [[electronic resource] ] : an empirical investigation of variety status / / Sarah Buschfeld |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Collana |
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Varieties of English around the world, , 0172-7362 ; ; v. G46 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Dialects - Cyprus |
English language - Foreign countries |
Greek language - Influence on English |
Turkish language - Influence on English |
Sociolinguistics - Cyprus |
Cyprus Languages |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume provides the first-ever comprehensive analysis of a potential variety of English, spoken in the Greek part of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Despite the fact that Cyprus was a British colony from 1878 to 1960, the status of the English language spoken there has not yet been discussed systematically within the framework of World Englishes. To determine whether English in Cyprus has second-language variety status or should rather be considered as learner English, the monograph investigates its historical, sociopolitical and sociolinguistic background and, drawing on a corpus of |
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