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

Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations Series Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 9 Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 9 Contents 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 Summary Problems of how to describe and explain the forms and functions of English outside Britain and the United States (and of varieties within the two countries) have become central for English linguistics over the past twenty years. The present collection combines 8 of Gorlach's major articles in the field written between 1984 and 1988. They range from methodological and state-of-the-art accounts to treatments of "colonial lag", from lexicographical problems, and translations into pidgins and creoles to papers focussing on individual regions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-205) and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record SUBJECT Commonwealth gnd Subject English language -- Variation -- English-speaking countries English language -- Variation -- Commonwealth countries English language -- Variation -- Foreign countries English language -- English-speaking countries English language -- Commonwealth countries English language -- Foreign countries. English language -- Variation. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General. English language English language -- Foreign countries English language -- Variation English language -- Variation -- Foreign countries Sprachvariante Aufsatzsammlung Sprachgebrauch Taalvariatie. Engels. Commonwealth countries English-speaking countries Englisches Sprachgebiet Englisch. Form Electronic book LC no. 91007126 ISBN 9789027277565 9027277567 1283358603 9781283358606 9786613358608 6613358606

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