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This volume follows on from The Lesser-Known Varieties of English (Cambridge, 2010), by documenting a further range of varieties that have been overlooked and understudied. It explores varieties spoken by small groups of people in remote regions as diverse as Malta, Bermuda, the Netherlands Antilles, Brazil, the Cook Islands, and Palau. The varieties explored are as much a part of the big picture as major varieties and it is the intention of this collection to spark further interest in the sociolinguistic documentation of minority Englishes in a postcolonial world. Language endangerment is a very real factor for the vast majority of lesser-known varieties of English, and this book aims to highlight that documentation and archiving are key initial steps in revitalization and reclamation efforts. This book will be of interest to historians of English, and scholars in dialectology, language birth and death, language contact, typology, and variation and change.
Sommario
1. Introduction Jeffrey P. Williams, Edgar W. Schneider, Peter Trudgill and Daniel Schreier; Part I. Europe: 2. Maltese English Manfred Krug; 3. Gibraltar English David Levey; 4. Irish travellers' English Maria Rieder; Part II. The Americas: 5. American Indian English Elizabeth Coggshall; 6. Bequia English Miriam Meyerhoff and James Walker; 7. Saban English Jeffrey P. Williams and Caroline Myrick; 8. St Eustatius English Michael Aceto; 9. The English of Gustavia, St Barthélemy Ken Decker; 10. Anglo-Paraguayan English Danae M. Perez-Inofuentes; 11. Afro-Seminole English Ian Hancock; Part III. Asia and the Pacific: 12. Palmerston (Cook Islands) English Rachel Hendrey; 13. Pasifika English in New Zealand Allan Bell, Andy Gibson and Donna Starks; 14. Palauan English Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain.
Info autore
Jeffrey P. Williams is Professor of Anthropology at Texas Tech University. He previously taught at the University of Sydney and Cleveland State University. Most recently he edited The Aesthetics of Grammar: Sound and Meaning in the Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia (Cambridge, 2014).Edgar W. Schneider is Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at Universität Regensburg, Germany. He has published and lectured on all continents on topics in the dialectology, sociolinguistics, history, and semantics of English and its varieties. He edited the scholarly journal English World-Wide for many years and has written and edited about twenty books, including Handbook of Varieties of English (2004, 2008), Postcolonial English (Cambridge, 2007) and English around the World (Cambridge, 2011).
Riassunto
This book documents and describes the lesser-known varieties of English which have been overlooked and understudied within the canon of English linguistics. The aim of this work is to spark further interest in systematic fieldwork and sociolinguistic documentation of minority Englishes in a postcolonial world.
