Englishes : studies in varieties of English, 1984-1988, by Manfred Görlach

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Englishes : studies in varieties of English, 1984-1988, by Manfred Görlach

Title remainder

studies in varieties of English, 1984-1988

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by Manfred Görlach

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• Englishes : studies in varieties of English, 1984-1988

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• Amsterdam | Philadelphia, J. Benjamins, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-205) and indexes

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• ENGLISHES STUDIES IN VARIETIES OF ENGLISH 1984-1988 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE -- ENGLISHES -- ENGLISH AS A WORLD LANGUAGE -THE STATE OF THE ART -- 1. General reflections1 -- 2. Individual aspects of EWL as related to traditional disciplines -- 2.2. The sociolinguistics of EWL -- 2.2.2. Dialects and other regional varieties -- 2.2.3. Sociolects -- 2.2.4. Multilingualism -- 2.2.5. Political questions -- 2.3. Historical aspects of EWL
• 2.4. The acquisition of English and standards of education2.5. Creative/xpressive aspects of EWL -- 2.6. Individual levels of language -- 2.6.1. Pronunciation and intelligibility -- 2.6.2. Syntax -- 2.6.3. The lexicon and lexicography -- 2.6.4. Styles -- 3. Conclusion -- 4. EWL as a discipline of academic teaching -- LEXICOGRAPHICAL PROBLEMS OF NEW ENGLISHES AND ENGLISH-RELATED PIDGIN AND CREOLE LANGUAGES1 -- 1. The history -- 2. Methodology -- 2.0. The scope of this investigation -- 2.1. Dictionaries analysed
• 2.2. Exclusive (complementary) vs. inclusive dictionaries2.3. Categories of items and types of information included in glossaries -- 2.4. The inclusive dictionary -- 2.5. Pidgin and creole dictionaries -- 3. Individual linguistic levels -- 3.1. Orthography -- 3.2. Pronunciation -- 3.3. Parts of speech and grammatical information -- 3.4. Phrases and idi -- 3.5. Meaning -- 3.6. Synonyms and heteronyms -- 3.7. Restrictive labels -- 3.8. Etymologies -- 3.8.1. Pidgin and creole languages -- 4. Desiderata -- Postscript
• SCOTLAND AND JAMAICA -- BIDIALECTAL OR BILINGUAL?11. Introduction -- 1.1. Preliminary: Why compare the Scottish and Jamaican speech communities -- 1.2. The sociolinguistics of dialects and creoles -- 1.3. Comparable cases of endangered linguistic identity -- 2. Historical background: historicity -- 2.1. The social history of Scots and Jamaican contrasted -- 2.2. Numbers of speakers -- 3. Criteria drawn from language structure -- 3.1. Abstand -- 3.2. Dictionaries and translations -- 3.3. Languages in contact: code-switching and code-mixing
• 4. Selected aspects of the sociolinguistics of Scots and Jamaican4.1. The role of the schools -- 4.2. The church -- 4.3. Literary texts -- 4.4. The language of radio and television -- 5. Language planning -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Code selection -- 5.3. Homogenization -- 5.4. Expansion (ausbau) -- 5.5. Acceptance and implementation -- 6. Conclusion -- COLONIALLAG? THE ALLEGED CONSERVATIVE CHARACTER OF AMERICAN ENGLISH AND OTHER 'COLONIAL' VARIETIES1 -- 1. Introductory -- 2. Phonetic and phonological features -- 3. The lexicon -- 4. Syntax

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