English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in by Dagmar Deuber

By Dagmar Deuber

This booklet offers an in-depth learn of English as spoken in significant anglophone Caribbean territories, Jamaica and Trinidad. according to information from the foreign Corpus of English, it makes a speciality of version on the morphological and syntactic point among the proficient general and extra casual informed spoken utilization. Dagmar Deuber combines quantitative analyses throughout a number of textual content different types with qualitative analyses of transcribed textual content passages which are grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and up to date techniques to linguistic kind and id. The dialogue is located within the context of version within the Caribbean and the broader context of worldwide Englishes, and the sociolinguistic history of Jamaica and Trinidad can be explored. This quantity might be of curiosity to scholars and researchers attracted to the fields of sociolinguistics, global Englishes, and language contact.

Show description

Read Online or Download English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad (Studies in English Language) PDF

Similar literary criticism & theory books

Don Quixote and the Brilliant Name of Fire : Qabalah, Tarot and Shakespeare in the Greatest Novel

"Don Quixote and the bright identify of fireplace finds for the 1st time the real quantity of the esoteric size of the vintage Spanish paintings. References to playing cards of the Tarot deck, a method of development at the internal trip, have lengthy been famous in it; yet Don Quixote and the intense identify of fireplace will express their complete quantity, in addition to demonstrating awesome visible representations of Hebrew letters of the Qabalah, and the stern allegory of psychic transformation—in the way in which of the Shakespeare plays—in which those symbols have their position.

Sexuality in Charlotte Brontë’s "Jane Eyre"

Seminar paper from the yr 2005 within the topic English Language and Literature experiences - Literature, grade: 2,7, college of Trier, language: English, summary: at any place you enable your eye commute nowadays you come back throughout sexuality and nakedness. 3 appealing ladies are nakedly smiling at you from a big advertisements poster for a solarium, within the ad holiday on television a lady tears an enticing man’s outfits simply because she is mesmerized via his new odor, and within the yellow pages it's also possible to discover a voucher which promises you a bottle of champagne at no cost in the event you e-book a one hour-service in a definite brothel .

The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Fable is a construction of the Enlightenment, and the popularity that pleasure and beauty are available in imagining very unlikely issues. From the ghost tales of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century well known literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the glorious has been well liked by readers.

Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission

Anne Toner presents an unique account of the historical past of ellipsis marks - dots, dashes and asterisks - in English literary writing. Highlighting ever-renewing curiosity in those different types of non-completion in literature, Toner demonstrates how writers have striven to catch up with to the hesitancies and interruptions of spoken language, the indeterminacies of suggestion, and the successive or fragmented nature of expertise by way of those textual symbols.

Additional resources for English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad (Studies in English Language)

Example text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.42 of 5 – based on 29 votes