English National Identity and Football Fan Culture : Who Are Ya?. by Gibbons, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical Approach for Understanding Contemporary English National Identity; 3 The Unintended Consequences of Global and European Forces on English Football Fan Culture; 4 Manifestations of Englishness in Pubs during World Cup 2006; 5 Fan Debates on Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics and the Almunia Case; 6 The Club versus Country Debate in English Football and the Diverse Use of the St George's Cross; 7 Conclusion: Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties in English Football; Appendix: Research Strategy; Bibliography; Index.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Heterogeneity in word-formation patterns : a corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English by Muehleisen, Susanne

Table of Contents: “…A corpus-based analysis of 1,000 potential new -ee words -- 6.-ee words in varieties of English -- Works cited -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Transferring linguistic know-how into institutional practice

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Bührig, Meyer -- Applied linguistics as problem solving and multilingualism / Knapp -- Sociolinguistics in New Zealand society : using research to enhance working lives / Holmes -- The future of multilingualism : moving towards a HELIX of societal multilingualism under global auspices / Rehbein -- Varieties of English in the EFL classroom setting / Davydova, Maier, Siemund -- Promoting the weak language of German-Spanish bilingual children living in Germany / Lleo, Saceda, Garcia -- Transferring knowledge using English as a lingua franca in written multilingual business communication / Böttger, House, Stachowicz -- Transfer is no one-way : insights into ad-hoc-interpreting in German hospitals / Bührig, Meyer.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Focus on Scotland. by Görlach, Manfred

Table of Contents: “…The predicament of a Scots writer; The debate on Scots orthography; THE CHRISTMAS STORY IN SCOTS; Poetry in Glasgow dialect; INDEX; Authors' addresses; The series Varieties of English Around the World.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

The Handbook of Asian Englishes by Bolton, Kingsley

Table of Contents: “…The analysis of varieties of English -- Discussion -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 The Lexicography of Asian Englishes -- Introduction -- The history and development of Asian English dictionaries -- The problematics of English lexicography in Asian contexts -- Modern dictionaries of individual varieties -- Global English dictionaries -- Conclusion -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Part II English in Outer Circle Asian Societies -- Chapter 10 Indian English -- Introduction -- The multilingual context of India -- The history of English in India -- Status and functions of English in India…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

A History of English Negation. by Mazzon, Gabriella

Table of Contents: “…Further Discussion on the Pragmatics of Negation; Chapter 5. Varieties of English; 5.1. Negation Outside the Standard Variety of English; 5.2. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Corpora and Lexis

Table of Contents: “…Intensification with Very, Really and So in Selected Varieties of English / Aijmer -- Chapter 5. The Pragmatics of Well as a Discourse Marker in Broadcast Discussions / Kirk -- Chapter 6. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics : a study of variation and change in the modal systems of world Englishes by Hansen, Beke

Full text (MCPHS users only)

An introduction to English sociolinguistics by Trousdale, Graeme, 1971-

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Linguistic universals and language variation

Table of Contents: “…Part 3 Methodological issues of variation researchVariation and reproducibility in linguistics; Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes: prospects and limitations of searching for universals; Comparing varieties of English: problems and perspectives; Part 4 Variation and linguistic theory; Norwegian main clause declaratives: variation within and across grammars; Syntactic variation and change in Romance: a Minimalist approach; A localistic approach to universals and variation.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

New Zealand English by Hay, Jennifer, Maclagan, Margaret, Gordon, Elizabeth, 1941-

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Topics in English Linguistics : Variational Text Linguistics : Revisiting Register in English. by Schubert, Christoph

Table of Contents: “…-- 'Now niggas talk a lotta Bad Boy shit': The register hip-hop from a corpus-linguistic perspective -- The register of English crossword puzzles: Studies in intertextuality -- Section II: Cross-register comparison -- Punctuation as an indication of register: Comics and academic texts -- Linking up register and cognitive perspectives: Parenthetical constructions in academic prose and experimentalist poetry -- Cohesive devices across registers and varieties: The role of medium in English -- Section III: Regional, contrastive and diachronic register variation -- Metaphors in New English academic writing -- The influence of register on noun phrase complexity in varieties of English -- Real-time online text commentaries: A cross-cultural perspective -- Word order is in order here: A diachronic register analysis of syntactic markedness in English -- Index.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Language contact in Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas : in honor of John V. Singler

Table of Contents: “…Linguistic commonality in English of the African diaspora: Linguistic commonality in English of the African diaspora: Evidence from lesser-known varieties of English1. Introduction; 2. The role of lesser-known varieties of English; 3. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Determinants of grammatical variation in English

Table of Contents: Full text (MCPHS users only)

The Routledge handbook of world Englishes

Table of Contents: “…Schneider -- Mixed codes or varieties of English? / James McLellan -- Semantic and pragmatic conceptualisations within an emerging variety : Persian English / Farzad Sharifian -- Writing in Englishes 'in defence of foreigness' / Ha Jin -- World Englishes, social disharmonisation, and environmental destruction / Ahmar Mahboob -- Online Englishes / Mark Warschauer, Sharin Jacob and Undraa Maamuujav -- The Englishes of business / Catherine Nickerson -- The increasing use of EMI in higher education / Ernesto Macaro -- The Englishes of popular culture / Andrew Moody -- World Englishes and Philippine call centres / Kingsley Bolton -- Translanguaging and multilingual creativity with English in the Sinophone world / Tong King Lee and Li Wei -- 'Brexit' and the postnational dimension of English in Europe / Mario Saraceni, Britta Schneider and Christine Bélanger -- Variation across Englishes phonology / David Deterding -- English language teachers in context : who teaches what, where and why? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Northern and insular Scots by Millar, Robert McColl, 1966-

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Northern and insular Scots by Millar, Robert McColl, 1966-

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes

Table of Contents: “…Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte -- "This hair-style called as 'duck tail'" The intrusive as-construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes / Christopher Koch, Claudia Lange and Sven Leuckert -- Detecting innovations in a parsed corpus of learner English / Gerold Schneider and Gaëtanelle Gilquin -- The innovative progressive aspect of Black South African English: The role of language proficiency and normative processes / Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kruger -- Towards a process-oriented approach to comparing EFL and ESL varieties: A corpus-study of lexical innovations / Marcus Callies -- In case of innovation: Academic phraseology in the Three Circles / Alison Edwards and Rutger-Jan Lange -- Innovative conversions in South-East Asian Englishes: Reassessing ESL status / Stephanie Horch -- The fate of linguistic innovations: Jersey English and French learner English compared / Anna Rosen -- It's always different when you look something from the inside: Linguistic innovation in a corpus of ELF Skype conversations / Marie-Louise Brunner, Stefan Diemer and Selina Schmidt.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Diversity and Diachrony.

Table of Contents: “…DIVERSITY AND DIACHRONY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Preface; CONTRIBUTORS; I. VARIETIES OF ENGLISH AND THEIR HISTORY; DE FACTO SEGREGATION OF BLACK AND WHITE VERNACULARS; 1. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Keeping in touch : emigrant letters across the English-speaking world

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Computer-Mediated Communication : Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives. by Herring, Susan C.

Table of Contents: “…COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION LINGUISTIC, SOCIAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; Introduction; I: LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES; Electronic Language: A New Variety of English; Oral and Written Linguistic Aspects of Computer Conferencing: A Corpus Based Study; Linguistic and Interactional Features of Internet Relay Chat; Functional Comparison of Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Decision Making Interactions; Two Variants of an Electronic Message Schema; II: SOCIAL AND ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

English in computer-mediated communication : variation, representation, and change

Table of Contents: “…Contact, Spread, and Innovation. Global varieties of English gone digital: Orthographic and semantic variation in digital Nigerian Pidgin -- Virtual meatspace: Word formation and deformation in cyberpunk discussions -- Language change because Twitter? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Dialectology meets typology : dialect grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective

Table of Contents: “…Do as a tense and aspect marker in varieties of EnglishTypology, dialectology and the structure of complementation in Romani; Problems for typology: Perfects and resultatives in spoken and non-standard English and Russian; Comparing grammatical variation phenomena in non-standard English and Low German dialects from a typological perspective; On three types of dialect variation and their implications for linguistic theory. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Corpus-based approaches to register variation

Table of Contents: “…A programmatic sketch and a case study on the dative alternation with give / Alexandra Engel, Jason Grafmiller, Laura Rosseel, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Freek Van de Velde -- Theme as a proxy for register categorization / Javier Pérez-Guerra -- Between context and community : regional variation in register effects in the English dative alternation / Melanie Röthlisberger -- A register variation perspective on varieties of English / Stella Neumann and Stefan Evert -- Register and modification in the noun phrase / Yolande Botha and Maryka van Zyl -- A register approach toward pop lyrics in EFL education / Valentin Werner -- On the importance of register in learner writing : a multi-dimensional approach / Tove Larsson, Magali Paquot and Douglas Biber -- Nominalizations in Early Modern English : a cross-register perspective / Paula Rodríguez-Puente -- Measuring informativity : the rise of compounds as informationally dense structures in 20th-century Scientific English / Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb -- Exploring sub-register variation in Victorian newspapers : evidence from the British Library Newspapers database / Turo Hiltunen.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics : Developing and Exploiting Corpora. by Vandelanotte, Lieven

Table of Contents: “…Specialist corpora; Relative clauses in Philippine English: a diachronic perspective; The progressive in South Asian and Southeast Asian varieties of English -- mapping areal homogeneity and heterogeneity; Neology: from word to register; English amid(st) and among(st): a contrastive approach based on Norwegian and Swedish translation; Cohesive conjunctions in English and German: systemic contrasts and textual differences; Part 3. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Translingual Practice. by Canagarajah, A. Suresh

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Towards a Social Science of Language : Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 1: Variation and change in language and society. by Guy, Gregory R.

Table of Contents: “…African-American Varieties of EnglishThe Origins of Variation in Guyanese; The Urbanization of Creole Phonology: Variation and Change in Jamaican (KYA); CopulaVariabilityin Jamaican Creole and African American Vernacular English: A Reanalysis of DeCamp's Texts; Contraction and Deletion in African American Vernacular English: Creole History and Relationship to Euro-American English; Dimensions of a Theory of Econolinguistics; William Labov: A Bibliography; Index.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Generative theory and corpus studies : a dialogue from 10 ICEHL

Table of Contents: “…-- Grammatical description and language use in the seventeenth century -- Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots -- Inversion in embedded questions in some regional varieties of English -- Putting words in their place: An approach to Middle English word geography -- 4. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Conversations about Language and Culture by Burton, Howard

Table of Contents: Full text (MCPHS users only)

English in the World : History, Diversity, Change. by Seargeant, Philip

Table of Contents: “…English and Englishes; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 A sociolinguistic approach to studying varieties of English; 5.3 English in the 'Old World'; 5.4 English in the 'New World'; 5.5 'New Englishes' in Africa and Asia; 5.6 English-related varieties: pidgins and creoles; 5.7 The expanding circle of Englishes?…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Indian English. by Pingali, Sailaja

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Pittsburgh speech and Pittsburghese by Johnstone, Barbara, Baumgardt, Daniel, Eberhardt, Maeve, Kiesling, Scott F.

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Linguistic purism in the Germanic languages

Table of Contents: “…attitudes towards varieties of English -- Linguistic purism from several perspectives: views from the â€?…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Words in dictionaries and history : essays in honour of R.W. McConchie

Full text (MCPHS users only)

New-Dialect Formation : the Inevitability of Colonial Englishes. by Tridgill, Peter

Full text (MCPHS users only)

The typology of Asian Englishes

Full text (MCPHS users only)

New Zealand English : its origins and evolution

Full text (MCPHS users only)

From data to evidence in English language research

Table of Contents: “…Warn Against -ing Exceptions to Bach's Generalization in Four Varieties of English / Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko -- 6. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Three streams of generative language acquisition research : selected papers from the 7th meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America, University of Ill...

Table of Contents: “…Variation in input: The comprehension of 3rd person singular -s by NYC English-speaking preschoolers / Isabelle Barrière, Sarah Kresh, Katsiaryna Aharodnik, Géraldine Legendre and Thierry Nazzi -- Children's acquisition of sociolinguistic variation / Karen Miller -- Variability within varieties of English: Profiles of typicality and impairment / Janna B. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

The Handbook of Language Contact. by Hickey, Raymond

Table of Contents: “…24 Contact and Asian Varieties of English25 Contact and African Englishes; 26 Contact and the Celtic Languages; 27 Spanish and Portuguese in Contact; 28 Contact and the Development of the Slavic Languages; 29 Contact and the Finno-Ugric Languages; 30 Language Contact in the Balkans; 31 Contact and the Development of Arabic; 32 Turkic Language Contacts; 33 Contact and North American Languages; 34 Language Contact in Africa: A Selected Review; 35 Contact and Siberian Languages; 36 Language Contact in South Asia; 37 Language Contact and Chinese; 38 Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)