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Oxford Guide to World English Tom McArthur

Oxford Guide to World English par Tom McArthur

Oxford Guide to World English Tom McArthur


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This guide aims to take up where its mother book, the Oxford Companion to the English Language, left off. Organized by continent, the book covers the world's many varieties of English in an interconnected way and notes the ties that bind varieties and regions that are far apart.

Oxford Guide to World English Résumé

Oxford Guide to World English Tom McArthur

The Oxford Guide to World English takes up where its 'mother book', the Oxford Companion to the English Language, left off. Organized by continent, there are chapters on Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, Oceania, and Antarctica. Tom McArthur covers the world's many varieties of English in an interconnected way and notes the ties that bind varieties and regions that are geographically far apart, as with: West African English and African American English; Scots, Ulster Scots, the Scotch-Irish migrations to Appalachia in the US, and country and western music; and aspects of Australian, New Zealand, South African, and Falklands English as southern-hemisphere varieties. The end result is a book that, while invaluable to the specialist, is accessible and appealing to the non-specialist, and covers a vast spread of 'Englishes' from Brummie, Cockney, Estuary, and RP in the UK to New York and New Orleans speech in the US and such other varieties as Indian English, Maori English, and West African Pidgin. This hugely comprehensive work provides a fascinating and novel survey of English as both a pre-eminent 'standard' world language and a family of vigorously diverse regional varieties.

Sommaire

PREFACE; MAP; 1. Introduction: A Global Lingua Franca; 2. Europe; 3. The Americas; 4. American and British; 5. Africa; 6. Asia; 7. Australasia, Oceania, and Antarctica; 8. Conclusion: World English; A Chronology of World English; Bibliography; Index

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GOR003674095
9780198607717
0198607717
Oxford Guide to World English Tom McArthur
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Oxford University Press
20030724
530
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