Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes - Local and Global Perspectives

This collection charts the evolution of grammatical variation in Englishes from the Late Middle English to the present, using corpus linguistic tools to address divergence and convergence in local and global perspectives.

Sommario

Table of contents
Foreword
Karen Corrigan
1. English around the Globe: Local and Global Perspectives on Social and Regional Variation
Paula Rautionaho, Hanna Parviainen, Mark Kaunisto, and Arja Nurmi
2. Status or Style? Social and Register Variation in Processes of Linguistic Change in the Past
Terttu Nevalainen
3. Have to vs. have got to in British and Irish English(es)
Markku Filppula
4. Was/were Variation with Subject Pronouns We, You, and They in Recent British English – Towards Standard Uses?
Paula Rautionaho and Mark Kaunisto
5. Regional Syntactic Variability in the Complementation System of Global Varieties of English
Raquel Romasanta
6. The Processes of Preposition Omission across English Variety Types
Heli Paulasto and Lea Meriläinen
7. Colonial Lag or Feature Retention in Postcolonial Varieties of English: The Negative
Scalar Conjunction ‘and that too’ in South Asian Englishes and Beyond
Robert Fuchs
8. My Bad – The Rise of an Innovative Structure through the Media
Patricia Ronan
9. Big and Rich Social Networks in Computational Sociolinguistics
Mikko Laitinen and Masoud Fatemi
10. Rhythm in World Englishes – Evidence from a Quantitative Analysis of Co-occurrence Patterns in a Corpus of L1 and L2 Varieties of English
Sebastian Hoffmann, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, and Peter Uhrig
Index

Info autore

Paula Rautionaho is University Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.
Hanna Parviainen is University Teacher at Tampere University, Finland.
Mark Kaunisto is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at Tampere University, Finland.
Arja Nurmi is a Senior Lecturer of English Translation at Tampere University, Finland.

Riassunto

This collection charts the evolution of grammatical variation in Englishes from the Late Middle English to the present, using corpus linguistic tools to address divergence and convergence in local and global perspectives.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Mark Kaunisto (Editore), Kaunisto Mark (Editore), Arja Nurmi (Editore), Nurmi Arja (Editore), Hanna Parviainen (Editore), Paula Rautionaho (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032130392
• ISBN: 978-1-032-13039-2
• Pagine: 220
• Peso: 430 g
• Illustrazioni: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Zeichnungen, farbig, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Language: history & general works, Historical & comparative linguistics, Language: history and general works, Historical and comparative linguistics