ENGLISH

Central American English

By John Holm

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1982
ISBN
3872762958, 9783872762955
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19594089 bytes)
Series
Varieties of English Around the World
Pages
188\195
Time added
2015-01-11 05:43:39
Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Диалекты и вар

Description

This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on current field work from Belize to Panama. One of the interesting features that emerges is the tentative map of diachronic and synchronic relationsships among the Anglophone creoles of the Caribbean, as illustrated partly by the lexicon and partly by grammatical constructions. The studies in this book are based on phonetic transcriptions of speech acts in their social and linguistic context.

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