The typology of Asian Englishes [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lisa Lim, Nikolas Gisborne

• 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
• Altri autori: LimLisa GisborneNikolas <1966->
• 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.: 9910781750303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II