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Changing English :

(Number (ISBN

3110429659

(Number (ISBN

3110438577

(Number (ISBN

9783110429657

(Number (ISBN

9783110438574

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b389850

Title Proper

Changing English :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

global and local perspectives

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Anna Mauranen, Svetlana Vetchinnikova.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin ; Boston

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

de Gruyter Mouton,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2017]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series Title

Topics in English linguistics, 92.

Text of Note

Based papers read at the conference, Changing English, held in Helsinki, Finland, June 2013, organised by GlobE Research Consortium.

Text of Note

Introduction / Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Anna Mauranen, Svetlana Vetchinnikova -- Towards the study of global English -- Ongoing changes in Englishes around the globe -- Expanding the horizons: lingua franca, cognitive, and contact-linguistic perspectives.

Text of Note

This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the researchThis book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the researchThis book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research",,,,,,"This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into contact with each other. The articles in this volume set out to combine all these perspectives in ways that give us a better understanding of the changing nature of English in the modern world.

Conference papers and proceedings; History; Congresses

Markku Filppula

Anna Mauranen

GlobE Research Consortium

Juhani Klemola

Svetlana Vetchinnikova

Electronic name

[Book]

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