The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction

by Edited by Daniel Schreier , Peter Trudgill , Edgar W. Schneider , Jeffrey P. Williams

• ISBN13: 9780521710169
• ISBN10: 0521710162
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of English around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Pacific, South America, the South Atlantic and West Africa, it shows how these varieties are as much part of the big picture as major varieties and that their analysis is essential for addressing some truly important issues in linguistic theory, such as dialect obsolescence and death, language birth, dialect typology and genetic classification, patterns of diffusion and transplantation and contact-induced language change. It also shows how close interwoven fields such as social history, contact linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics are in accounting for their formation and maintenance, providing a thorough description of the lesser-known varieties of English and their relevance for language spread and change.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. x
List of contributors	p. xii
Map	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
The British Isles
Orkney and Shetland	p. 17
Channel Island English	p. 35
The Americas and the Caribbean
Canadian Maritime English	p. 59
Newfoundland and Labrador English	p. 72
Honduras/Bay Islands English	p. 92
Euro-Caribbean English varieties	p. 136
Bahamian English	p. 158
Dominican Kokoy	p. 171
Anglo-Argentine English	p. 195
The South Atlantic Ocean
Falkland Islands English	p. 209
St Helenian English	p. 224
Tristan da Cunha English	p. 245
Africa
Li Rhodesian English	p. 263
White Kenyan English	p. 286
Australasia and the Pacific
Eurasian Singapore English	p. 313
Peranakan English in Singapore	p. 327
Norfolk Island and Pitcairn varieties	p. 348
Index	p. 365
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