American Indian English

• Autore: Leap William L
• Pubblicazione: Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Disciplina: 427.908997
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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 ""
• Sommario/riassunto: American Indian English documents and examines the diversity of English in American Indian speech communities.It presents a convincing case for the fundamental influence of ancestral Native American languages on respective modern Indian English codes.
• Titolo autorizzato: American Indian English
• ISBN: 1-60781-198-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910974955903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II