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Genre/Form: | Reference works Handbuch Handbooks |
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Named Person: | Englisch |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tom McArthur |
ISBN: | 0198662483 9780198662488 |
OCLC Number: | 59399668 |
Description: | xiv, 501 pages : map ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Map Introduction: A Global Lingua Franca -- Europe -- The americas -- American and British -- Africa -- Asia -- Australasia, Oceania, and Antarctica -- Conclusion : World English. |
Responsibility: | Tom McArthur. |
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Abstract:
This is a survey of English both as a pre-eminent world language and as an increasingly divergent language. Setting out to be accessible and appealing to the non-specialist, it covers a range of dialects and languages, including UK dialects, Spanglish, Jamaican Creole, Yinglish and Chicano English.
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