Focus on Canada / edited by Sandra Clarke.
Material type: TextSeries: Varieties of English around the world. General series ; ; v. 11.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993Description: xi, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1556194420
- 9781556194429
- 427.971
- PE3208.8. F63 1993
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 427.971 FOC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A272592B |
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427.94373 PRE Buying into English : language and investment in the new capitalist world / | 427.959 ENG Englishes in Asia : communication, identity, power and education / | 427.971 FOC Focus on Canada / | 427.971 FOC Focus on Canada / | 427.97292 CAS Jamaica talk : three hundred years of the English language in Jamaica / | 427.973 GIL Speak business English like an American : learn the idioms & expressions you need to succeed on the job / | 427.973 GIL ACCOMPANYING PART ( DISC ) Speak business English like an American : learn the idioms & expressions you need to succeed on the job / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- "Lawless and vulgar innovations": Victorian views of Canadian English -- Canadian English lexicography -- The hobgoblin of Canadian English spelling -- The planting of Anglo-Irish in Newfoundland -- The Americanization of Canadian pronunciation: A survey of palatal glide usage -- African American English in the diaspora: Evidence from old-line Nova Scotians -- A synchronic study of English spoken in Ottawa: Is Canadian English becoming more American? -- Linguistic symmetries, asymmetries, and border effects within a Canadian/American sample -- A sociolinguistic analysis of Canadian English in Saskatchewan: A look at urban versus rural speakers -- Retracting of [actual symbol not reproducible] in Vancouver English -- Comparative sociolinguistics of (aw)-fronting -- Local patterns and markers of speech in Vancouver English -- Addresses of authors -- Index.
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