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Who's centric now? : the present state of post-colonial Englishes / edited by Bruce Moore.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: South Melbourne, Vic. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001Description: viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195514505
  • 9780195514506
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420.9171241
LOC classification:
  • PE2751. W48 2001
Contents:
1. World English(es), world dictionaries / Tom McArthur -- 2. New Zealand, New Zealand English, and the dictionaries / Tony Deverson -- 3. Australian English: Australian Identity / Bruce Moore -- 4. Lexical borrowing from Maori in New Zealand English / Graeme Kennedy -- 5. South African English: politics and the sense of place / Penny Silva -- 6. Globalising Singaporean - Malaysian English in an inclusive learner's dictionary / Vincent B. Y. Ooi -- 7. English in Bangladesh after independence: dynamics of policy and practice / Rahela Banu and Roland Sussex -- 8. English in post-colonial India: an appraisal / R. S. Gupta -- 9. The spread of Anglo-Indian words into South-East Asia / Cavan Hogue -- 10. Pacific Pidgin Englishes: the Australian connection / Darrell Tryon -- 11. Two-way English and the bicultural experience / Ian Malcolm -- 12. The current status of English in Fiji / Jan Tent -- 13. Queen's English and People's English / John Simpson -- 14. Neither Uncle Sam nor John Bull: Canadian English comes of age / Katherine Barber -- 15. Varietal effects: the influence of American English on Australian and British English / Pam Peters.
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"The Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University.".

Papers originally presented at a conference held at the Australian National University, Oct. 27-29, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. World English(es), world dictionaries / Tom McArthur -- 2. New Zealand, New Zealand English, and the dictionaries / Tony Deverson -- 3. Australian English: Australian Identity / Bruce Moore -- 4. Lexical borrowing from Maori in New Zealand English / Graeme Kennedy -- 5. South African English: politics and the sense of place / Penny Silva -- 6. Globalising Singaporean - Malaysian English in an inclusive learner's dictionary / Vincent B. Y. Ooi -- 7. English in Bangladesh after independence: dynamics of policy and practice / Rahela Banu and Roland Sussex -- 8. English in post-colonial India: an appraisal / R. S. Gupta -- 9. The spread of Anglo-Indian words into South-East Asia / Cavan Hogue -- 10. Pacific Pidgin Englishes: the Australian connection / Darrell Tryon -- 11. Two-way English and the bicultural experience / Ian Malcolm -- 12. The current status of English in Fiji / Jan Tent -- 13. Queen's English and People's English / John Simpson -- 14. Neither Uncle Sam nor John Bull: Canadian English comes of age / Katherine Barber -- 15. Varietal effects: the influence of American English on Australian and British English / Pam Peters.

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