The lexis and lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English
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The lexis and lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English
(Varieties of English around the world, v. G54)
J. Benjamins, c2015
- : hb
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-232) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. List of figures
- 2. List of tables
- 3. List of abbreviations
- 4. Acknowledgments
- 5. Chapter 1. Sri Lankan English and Sri Lankan Englishes
- 6. Chapter 2. The development of Sri Lankan English
- 7. Chapter 3. Methodology
- 8. Chapter 4. Sri Lankan English lexis
- 9. Chapter 5. Sri Lankan English lexicogrammar
- 10. Chapter 6. A model of (the emergence of) distinctive structural profiles of semiautonomous varieties of English
- 11. References
- 12. Appendix
- 13. Index
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