Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: sociolinguistics and English around the world
- 1 The UK and the USA
- 2 Ireland
- 3 Urban and rural varieties of Hiberno-English
- 4 Sociolinguistic variation and methodology: after as a Dublin variable
- 5 The interpretation of social constraints on variation in Belfast English
- 6 Canada
- 7 Phonological variation and recent language change in St John's English
- 8 Sociophonetic variation in Vancouver
- 9 Social differentiation in Ottawa English
- 10 New Zealand
- 11 Social constraints on the phonology of New Zealand English
- 12 Maori English: a New Zealand myth?
- 13 Sporting formulae in New Zealand English: two models of male solidarity
- 14 Australia
- 15 /æ/ and /a:/ in Australian English
- 16 Variation in subject–verb agreement in Inner Sydney English
- 17 Australian Creole English: the effect of cultural knowledge on language and memory
- 18 South Asia
- 19 Final consonant cluster simplification in a variety of Indian English
- 20 Patterns of language use in a bilingual setting in India
- 21 Speech acts in an indigenised variety: sociocultural values and language variation
- 22 Southeast Asia and Hongkong
- 23 Stylistic shifts in the English of the Philippine print media
- 24 Variation in Malaysian English: the pragmatics of languages in contact
- 25 Social and linguistic constraints on variation in the use of two grammatical variables in Singapore English
- 26 East Africa (Tanzania and Kenya)
- 27 The politics of the English language in Kenya and Tanzania
- 28 National and subnational features in Kenyan English
- 29 Southern Africa
- 30 Sources and consequences of miscommunication in Afrikaans English – South African English encounters
- 31 Syntactic variation in South African Indian English: the relative clause
- 32 The social significance of language use and language choice in a Zambian urban setting: an empirical study of three neighbourhoods in Lusaka
- 33 West Africa
- 34 The pronoun system in Nigerian Pidgin: a preliminary study
- 35 The sociolinguistics of prepositional usage in Nigerian English
- 36 Social and linguistic constraints on plural marking in Liberian English
- 37 The Caribbean
- 38 Standardisation in a creole continuum situation: the Guyana case
- 39 Gender roles and linguistic variation in the Belizean Creole community
- 40 Sociolinguistic variation in Cane Walk: a quantitative case study
- 41 The Pacific
- 42 Watching girls pass by in Tok Pisin
- 43 Sociolinguistic variation and language attitudes in Hawaii
- 44 Variation in Fiji English
- Index of topics
- Index of place names
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: sociolinguistics and English around the world
- 1 The UK and the USA
- 2 Ireland
- 3 Urban and rural varieties of Hiberno-English
- 4 Sociolinguistic variation and methodology: after as a Dublin variable
- 5 The interpretation of social constraints on variation in Belfast English
- 6 Canada
- 7 Phonological variation and recent language change in St John's English
- 8 Sociophonetic variation in Vancouver
- 9 Social differentiation in Ottawa English
- 10 New Zealand
- 11 Social constraints on the phonology of New Zealand English
- 12 Maori English: a New Zealand myth?
- 13 Sporting formulae in New Zealand English: two models of male solidarity
- 14 Australia
- 15 /æ/ and /a:/ in Australian English
- 16 Variation in subject–verb agreement in Inner Sydney English
- 17 Australian Creole English: the effect of cultural knowledge on language and memory
- 18 South Asia
- 19 Final consonant cluster simplification in a variety of Indian English
- 20 Patterns of language use in a bilingual setting in India
- 21 Speech acts in an indigenised variety: sociocultural values and language variation
- 22 Southeast Asia and Hongkong
- 23 Stylistic shifts in the English of the Philippine print media
- 24 Variation in Malaysian English: the pragmatics of languages in contact
- 25 Social and linguistic constraints on variation in the use of two grammatical variables in Singapore English
- 26 East Africa (Tanzania and Kenya)
- 27 The politics of the English language in Kenya and Tanzania
- 28 National and subnational features in Kenyan English
- 29 Southern Africa
- 30 Sources and consequences of miscommunication in Afrikaans English – South African English encounters
- 31 Syntactic variation in South African Indian English: the relative clause
- 32 The social significance of language use and language choice in a Zambian urban setting: an empirical study of three neighbourhoods in Lusaka
- 33 West Africa
- 34 The pronoun system in Nigerian Pidgin: a preliminary study
- 35 The sociolinguistics of prepositional usage in Nigerian English
- 36 Social and linguistic constraints on plural marking in Liberian English
- 37 The Caribbean
- 38 Standardisation in a creole continuum situation: the Guyana case
- 39 Gender roles and linguistic variation in the Belizean Creole community
- 40 Sociolinguistic variation in Cane Walk: a quantitative case study
- 41 The Pacific
- 42 Watching girls pass by in Tok Pisin
- 43 Sociolinguistic variation and language attitudes in Hawaii
- 44 Variation in Fiji English
- Index of topics
- Index of place names
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- English around the WorldSociolinguistic Perspectives, pp. 288 - 298Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991
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