Investigations in sociohistorical linguistics
"In the last five hundred years or so, the English language has undergone remarkable geographical expansion, bringing it into contact with other languages in new locations. It also caused different regional dialects of the language to come into contact with each other in colonial situations. Th...
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| Glavni autor: | Trudgill, Peter (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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- Sadržaj: Machine generated contents note: Prologue: colonisation and contact; 1. What really happened to Old English?; 2. East Anglian English and the Spanish Inquisition; 3. On Anguilla and The Pickwick Papers; 4. The last Yankee in the Pacific; 5. An American lack of dynamism; 6. Colonial lag?; 7. 'The new non-rhotic style'; 8. What became of all the Scots?; Epilogue: the critical threshold and interactional synchrony