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Publication details [#19508]
Schneider, Edgar W., ed. 1997. Englishes around the World, Volume 2: Carribbean, Africa, Asia, Australasia: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach. (Varieties of English Around the World G19). John Benjamins. viii + 358 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
ISBN
90 272 4877 X
Annotation
Volume 2 of Englishes Around the World presents studies of so-called “New Englishes”, post-colonial varieties as spoken predominantly in countries of the former British Empire. There are five contributions on the Caribbean (covering Jamaica, Guyana, and Trinidad), five articles on Africa (South Africa, East Africa, and Nigeria), six studies of English in Asian countries (Japan, the Philippines, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea), and six papers on Australia and New Zealand. Topics covered range from sociohistorical causes and processes, the nativization of English in different countries, or the expression of individual identities by means of the English language through structural descriptions to sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, lexicographic, pragmatic, stylistic, and other matters.