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Creating Canadian English
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Artikel-Nr:
9781108497718
Veröffentl:
2019
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Erscheinungsdatum:
07.11.2019
Seiten:
302
Autor:
Stefan Dollinger
Gewicht:
593 g
Format:
235x157x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Stefan Dollinger is associate professor at the University of British Columbia's Department of English, specializing on Canadian English and linguistic border studies. He is author of New-Dialect Formation in Canada (2008), The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology (2015) and, of particular interest for the present book, chief editor of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (2017).
Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.
1. What is Canadian English?; 2. The heritage of Canadian English; 3. Avis pulls it off; 4. The 'technology': slips, slips, and more slips; 5. 1967 - excitement and hype; 6. Riding the wave of success; 7. A global village and a national dictionary war; 8. Decolonizing DCHP-1 and DCHP-2; 9. Is there really a Canadian English?; Further reading.