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Titolo: |
The typology of Asian Englishes [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lisa Lim, Nikolas Gisborne
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Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (128 p.) |
Disciplina: | 427/.95 |
Soggetto topico: | English language - Asia |
English language - Variation - Asia | |
English language - Social aspects - Asia | |
English language - Study and teaching - Asia | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
LimLisa
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The typology of Asian Englishes ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-31475-4 |
9786613314758 | |
90-272-8453-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910457750403321 |
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