Social and regional variation in world Englishes : local and global perspectives
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Social and regional variation in world Englishes : local and global perspectives
(Routledge studies in sociolinguistics)
Routledge, 2023 [i.e. 2022]
- : hbk
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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
Other editors: Hanna Parviainen, Mark Kaunisto, Arja Nurmi
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection charts the evolution of grammatical variation in Englishes from Late Middle English to the present, using corpus linguistic tools to address divergence and convergence in local and global perspectives.
The book considers both diachronic and synchronic perspectives in grammatical variation across varieties of English across the UK, North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The volume reflects on the questions of whether patterns of variation diverge or converge and to what extent catalysts for change are shared in time and space. Chapters look at different factors in grammatical variation at both the macro and micro level, investigating specific linguistic and grammatical features but also at wider phenomena in contact linguistics, social patterns, social networks, and media-based corpora. Chapters progress from the local to the global, all with an eye towards using the latest methodological approaches from corpus linguistics to shed light on the affordances of data-informed methods to study grammatical change and the possibilities for future research.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and World Englishes.
Table of Contents
Table of contents
Foreword
Karen Corrigan
1. English around the Globe: Local and Global Perspectives on Social and Regional Variation
Paula Rautionaho, Hanna Parviainen, Mark Kaunisto, and Arja Nurmi
2. Status or Style? Social and Register Variation in Processes of Linguistic Change in the Past
Terttu Nevalainen
3. Have to vs. have got to in British and Irish English(es)
Markku Filppula
4. Was/were Variation with Subject Pronouns We, You, and They in Recent British English - Towards Standard Uses?
Paula Rautionaho and Mark Kaunisto
5. Regional Syntactic Variability in the Complementation System of Global Varieties of English
Raquel Romasanta
6. The Processes of Preposition Omission across English Variety Types
Heli Paulasto and Lea Merilainen
7. Colonial Lag or Feature Retention in Postcolonial Varieties of English: The Negative
Scalar Conjunction 'and that too' in South Asian Englishes and Beyond
Robert Fuchs
8. My Bad - The Rise of an Innovative Structure through the Media
Patricia Ronan
9. Big and Rich Social Networks in Computational Sociolinguistics
Mikko Laitinen and Masoud Fatemi
10. Rhythm in World Englishes - Evidence from a Quantitative Analysis of Co-occurrence Patterns in a Corpus of L1 and L2 Varieties of English
Sebastian Hoffmann, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, and Peter Uhrig
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"