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1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Series |
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Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Dialect Birth in Multilingual Settings -- 1.2 Deficit or Dialect? -- 1.3 Goals and Questions -- 1.4 Outline of the Book -- 1.5 Methods Used -- 1.6 Data for Indian English -- 1.7 Data for Singapore English -- Part I: English in India -- 2 Histories of English in India -- 2.1 Social Histories of English in India -- 2.1.1 Phase I: Early Colonial Contact -- 2.1.2 Phase II: The British Raj -- 2.1.3 Phase III: The Independence Movement |
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2.1.4 Phase IV: Contemporary India -- 2.2 Common Features of Indian English -- 2.2.1 Retention of Historical British English Forms -- 2.2.2 Transfer from Indian Languages -- 2.2.3 Independent Innovations -- 2.3 Indian English as "decreasingly imperfect" Over Time? -- 2.4 Phase 3, Phase 4, or Phase 5? -- 3 Errors or Innovations? -- 3.1 The Problem of Nativeness -- 3.2 Models for Studying Variation in New Englishes -- 3.2.1 Second Language Acquisition -- 3.2.2 Native Dialect Variation -- 3.2.3 Language Contact and Creolization -- 3.3 Modeling New Englishes as a Usage Cline |
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3.3.1 Bilingual Continua -- 3.3.2 Implicational Scaling -- 3.4 The Usage Cline of Indian English -- 3.4.1 Grammatical Features -- 3.4.2 The Indian English Usage Cline -- 3.4.3 Learner Features -- 3.4.4 New Dialect Features -- 3.4.5 Correspondence to Social Factors -- 3.5 Implications -- 3.5.1 IndE and Other Continua -- 3.5.2 Why Are Some Features More Dialect-Like than Others? -- 4 The Article System -- 4.1 Differences between Hindi and English -- 4.2 Predicted Types of Grammatical Change -- 4.2.1 Hypothesis 1: Indo-Aryan Positional Marking of Discourse Familiarity |
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4.2.2 Hypothesis 2: Indo-Aryan Specificity Marking -- 4.2.3 Hypothesis 3: Universal Prototypes -- 4.2.4 Hypothesis 4: Discourse Status -- 4.3 Methodology -- 4.4 Results for Hypotheses 1-3 -- 4.4.1 Hypothesis 1: Transfer of L1 Positional Marking of Topicality -- 4.4.2 Hypothesis 2: Transfer of L1 Form Contrasts -- 4.4.3 Hypothesis 3: Universal Prototypes -- 4.5 Results for Hypothesis 4 -- 4.5.1 Modeling Givenness -- 4.5.2 Multivariate Analysis of Article Omission -- 4.6 Discussion: Pragmatic Reanalysis in Contact Settings -- 4.6.1 Corroboration across Studies |
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4.6.2 Implications: Contact Varieties and Discourse-Driven Restructuring -- 5 The Verbal System -- 5.1 Differences between Hindi and English -- 5.2 Predicted Types of Grammatical Change -- 5.3 Methodology -- 5.3.1 Data -- 5.3.2 Analytic Approach for Four Hypotheses -- 5.3.3 Detailed Coding Criteria -- 5.4 Past Tense (Hypothesis 1) -- 5.5 Progressive (Hypothesis 2) -- 5.6 A Unified Account of Tense-to-Aspect Shift in IndE -- 5.7 The Past Perfect (Hypothesis 3) -- 5.8 Modality (Hypothesis 4) -- 5.8.1 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Will and Would -- 5.8.2 Will and Would in IndE |
| Summary |
This book looks at two of the most well-established Asian varieties of English, Indian English and Singapore English, and asks what makes ""World Englishes"" look and sound as they do over time. Is it how long English has been in a given region? The languages it came into contact with? Or the social attitudes, policies, and practices towards languages in these regions? The book analyzes bilingual speech closely to show how strong the role of indigenous languages is, despite surface similarities in the two varieties. By using a comparative method, it is also able to pinpoint which specific soci |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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5.8.3 Explaining Will/Would Variation in IndE |
| Subject |
English language -- Dialects -- India
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English language -- Dialects -- Singapore
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English language -- Social aspects -- India
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English language -- Social aspects -- Singapore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197698624 |
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019769862X |
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9780197696415 |
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0197696414 |
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