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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838299803321

Autore

Leap William L

Titolo

American Indian English [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, 2014

ISBN

1-60781-198-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Disciplina

427.908997

Soggetti

Americanisms

English language -- United States -- Foreign elements -- Indian

Indians of North America -- Languages -- Influence on English

Indians of North America -- Languages

Languages in contact -- United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part I: Speaker and Structures ""; ""Chapter 1: Spearkers and Speech Communities ""; ""Chapter 2: Sound Patterns, Sentence Forms, and Meanings ""; ""Part II: Indian English and Ancestral Language Tradition ""; ""Chapter 3: The Ancestral Language Base ""; ""Chapter 4: Diversity and Contrast ""; ""Part III: History and Functions ""; ""Chapter 5: Thoughts on the History of Indian English ""; ""Chapter 6: Functions of Indian English ""; ""Part IV: Indian English in the Classroom ""

""Chapter 7: Contexts of Schooling on the Northern Ute Reservation """"Chapter 8: Drawing Inferences When Reading ""; ""Chapter 9: Question-answering as Story-telling ""; ""Chapter 10: Writing Ute English ""; ""Conclusions ""; ""Notes ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""