LINGUIST List 21.2313

Fri May 21 2010

Books: General Ling: Schreier, Trudgill, Schneider, Williams (Eds)

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        1.    Daniel Davies, The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: Schreier, Trudgill, Schneider, Williams (Eds)

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Message 1: The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: Schreier, Trudgill, Schneider, Williams (Eds)
Date: 17-May-2010
From: Daniel Davies <ddaviescambridge.org>
Subject: The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: Schreier, Trudgill, Schneider, Williams (Eds)
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Title: The Lesser-Known Varieties of English Subtitle: An Introduction Published: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://us.cambridge.org

Editor: Daniel Schreier Editor: Peter Trudgill Editor: Edgar W. Schneider Editor: Jeffrey P. Williams Electronic: ISBN: 9780511686610 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 28.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9780521883962 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780521710169 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Abstract:

This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historicalinformation on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties ofEnglish around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Pacific, SouthAmerica, the South Atlantic and West Africa, it shows how these varietiesare as much part of the big picture as major varieties and that theiranalysis is essential for addressing some truly important issues inlinguistic theory, such as dialect obsolescence and death, language birth,dialect typology and genetic classification, patterns of diffusion andtransplantation and contact-induced language change. It also shows howclose interwoven fields such as social history, contact linguistics andvariationist sociolinguistics are in accounting for their formation andmaintenance, providing a thorough description of the lesser-known varietiesof English and their relevance for language spread and change.

1. Introduction: Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill, Edgar W. Schneider andJeffrey Williams;

Part I. The British Isles:2. Shetlands and Orkney: Gunnel Melchers and Peter Sundkvist;3. Channel Islands: Mari C. Jones;

Part II. The Americas and the Caribbean:4. Canadian maritimes: Michael Kiefte;5. Newfoundland and Labrador: Sandra Clarke;6. Honduras/Bay Islands: Ross Graham;7. White Caribbean: Jeffrey P. Williams;8. Bahamas: Jeff Reaser,9. Dominican Kokoy: Michael Aceto;10. Anglo-Argentinian English: Julian Jefferies;

Part III. South Atlantic Ocean:11. Falkland Islands: David Britain and Andrea Sudbury;12. St Helena: Daniel Schreier;13. Tristan da Cunha: Daniel Schreier;

Part IV. Africa:14. White Zimbabwean English: Susan Fitzmaurice;15. White Kenyan English: Thomas Hoffmann;

Part V. Australasia and Pacific:16. Eurasian English in Singapore: Lionel Wee;17. Peranakans English in Malaysia and Singapore: Lisa Lim;18. Norfolk Island and Pitcairn: Peter Mühlhäusler.


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics                             Language Documentation                             Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Written In: English (eng )

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