Overview

This book explores the role that British dialects have played in the genesis and subsequent history of extraterritorial varieties of English. How did it come about that many New World, postcolonial versions of English still reflect non-standard British usage from the distant past? Key issues covered include the relationship between dialect input and innovation; the extension of dialect influence; the interaction between British dialects and indigenous languages; the influence of the social position of immigrant speakers of dialects; and the relationship of older forms of overseas Englishes to later New Englishes.

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Author:   Raymond Hickey (Universitat Essen)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9780521791083

ISBN 10:   0521791081
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   07 February 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Raymond Hickey; Part I. Out of Britain: 1. The dialectal structure of England Juhani Klemola; 2. English in Scotland Caroline Macafee; 3. Irish English Raymond Hickey; Part II. The New World: 4. Early American English Merja Kyto; 5. Seventeenth-century deportations to America Laura Wright; 6. English dialects in the United States Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes; 7. British dialect features in African Nova Scotia Shana Poplack and Sali Tagliamonte; 8. English input to Newfoundland Sandra Clarke; 9. The rise and decline of Briticisms in Mainland Canadian English Jack Chambers; 10. English in the Southern United States Edgar W. Schneider; 11. The transportation of Scots and English from Ulster Michael Montgomery; 12. English input to the Caribbean Raymond Hickey; Part III. The Southern Hemisphere: 13. English input to South Africa Roger Lass; 134 English input to Australia Scott Kiesling; 15. English input to New Zealand Elizabeth Gordon and Peter Trudgill; 16. English input to Melanesia Suzanne Romaine; 17. English on Tristan da Cunha Daniel Schreier; 18. English on the Falklands Andrea Sudbury.

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