E-Book, Englisch, Band G54, 262 Seiten
Bernaisch The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-272-6822-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, Band G54, 262 Seiten
Reihe: Varieties of English Around the World
ISBN: 978-90-272-6822-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This book offers the first in-depth corpus-based description of written Sri Lankan English. In comparison to British and Indian English, lexical and lexicogrammatical features of Sri Lankan English are analysed in a complex corpus environment comprising data from the respective components of the International Corpus of English, newspapers and online sources to explore the status of Sri Lankan English as a variety in its own right. The evolution of Sri Lankan English is depicted against the background of historical as well as sociolinguistic considerations and allows deriving a fine-grained model of the emergence of distinctive structural profiles of postcolonial Englishes developing in a multitude of norm orientations. This book is highly relevant to readers interested in Sri Lankan English and South Asian Englishes. It also offers more general sociolinguistic perspectives on the dynamics of postcolonial Englishes world-wide and on the inextricable link between language and identity.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
