Speaking Canadian English

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? A Canadian and an Englishman? If so, how? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language? Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada – its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English – how it came to sound the way it does – and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

Product Details :

Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Mark M. Orkin
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2015-06-26
File : 306 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317436324


Speaking Canadian English

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? A Canadian and an Englishman? If so, how? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language? Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada – its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English – how it came to sound the way it does – and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

Product Details :

Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Mark M. Orkin
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2015-06-26
File : 291 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317436331


Canadian History Beginnings To Confederation

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

"In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and post-Confederation Canada, with an emphasis on the most recent scholarship" -- Cover.

Product Details :

Genre : History
Author : Martin Brook Taylor
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release : 1994-01-01
File : 532 Pages
ISBN-13 : 080206826X


Canadian English

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

This textbook is the only one of its kind to introduce the study of Canadian English in the context of basic concepts of linguistics and sociolinguistics. The book provides foundational information on linguistic principles and on the different branches of sociolinguistics, ranging from the large-scale ‘macro’ study of language usage (the sociology of language, dialect surveys) to the ‘micro’ study of language use (sociophonetics, sociolinguistic variation and change). Each chapter highlights the different ways of collecting and analyzing data, including census data and historical texts, surveys and questionnaires, publically available corpora, and interviews. Mini-projects at the end of each chapter offer hands-on experience with the methods presented in the chapter. In addition to discussing the classic works in the study of Canadian English, this book engages with such contemporary issues as new-dialect formation, language and social identity, and ongoing language change, making it key reading for students taking courses in the areas of Canadian English, varieties of English, language variation, and sociolinguistics.

Product Details :

Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : James A. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2015-06-05
File : 171 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135913762


Creating Canadian English

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.

Product Details :

Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Stefan Dollinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2019-07-11
File : 303 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108497718


Studies In Canadian English

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

This publication focuses on vocabulary, which reflects unique Canadian traits; elements that share not only a Canadian origin but also reference to everyday contexts present on both the micro and macro stage. The conducted study aimed to show variation on the lexical level, which may result from a fluid sense of national identity. The Toronto region, due to its extensive multi-cultural and multi-ethnic background bears a sense of diversity both on the social and linguistic ground. The conducted study involved the distribution of questionnaires, which tested speakers’ knowledge of Canadian register, their ability of using them in the context of everyday discourse and the identification of items. Furthermore, the author had obtained two years worth of texts from the Toronto Sun, which enabled the observation of Canadianisms within the written medium of a media context. The resulting data formed a database labeled by the author as the LCTES (Lodz Corpus for Toronto English Study).

Product Details :

Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Adam Bednarek
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release : 2009-10-02
File : 150 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781443814553


Language And Canadian Media

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

Language Ideologies and Canadian Media explores how French and English Canadian media discuss languages and language issues, which language ideologies predominate in English and French, and whether language ideologies in traditional news media are transferred to new and social media. Using corpus linguistics and discourse analysis and a variety of different datasets ranging from print newspapers to online news, commentary and Twitter, the author argues that language ideologies in Canadian media have a bearing not only on the extent to which Canadian language policies are adopted, but also on the very way that Canadians understand themselves and their place in the nation.

Product Details :

Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Rachelle Vessey
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2016-04-30
File : 292 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781137530011


Introducing Global Englishes

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

It is estimated that "e;the number of native English speakers is 300 million to 450 million."e; More than one billion people are believed to speak some form of English. Although the numbers vary, it is widely accepted that hundreds of millions of people around the world speak English, whether as a native, second or a foreign language. English, in some form, has become the native or unofficial language of a majority of the countries around the world today. "e;In 20 to 30 countries around the world, English is merging with native languages to create hybrid Englishes."e; This comprehensive study of Introducing Global Englishes indented to be useful and popular among students because of the simplicity and directness of explanations of the various terms and concepts, its wealth of illustrative examples enables the reader to assimilate the content without being intimidated by its range and scope. Written in a very careful manner keeping in view of the course requirements it is aimed at familiarising students with the vibrant currents of thought that have enriched the literary enterprise of our time.

Product Details :

Genre :
Author : Nico Hess
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
Release : 2019-08-04
File : Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781839472992


Reimagining Canada

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

Webber begins by showing how different conceptions of culture, language, and nation shaped Canada's constitutional negotiations from 1960 until the referendum of 1992. He then calls for a reconception of the terms of the debate, claiming that the terms now used, often borrowed from quite different societies, have made resolution of the constitutional issues more difficult. He rejects the language of nation and nationalism, and the tendency towards exclusiveness implicit in that language, arguing for a Canadian community founded not on a rigid set of "shared values" but on shared debates and shared engagements through time. Recognizing that Canadians belong simultaneously to the larger community and to other more local communities each generating its own sense of allegiance Webber describes how their relationships are shaped by institutional, linguistic, and cultural factors and notes that these multiple influences produce an asymmetrical structure. He maintains that this structure should be reflected in an assymetrical constitution, and can be accommodated without undermining individual rights. Webber offers both an overview of the constitutional negotiations and a set of reflections on the appropriate relationship between culture, language, and political community in Canada. These reflections, while rooted in the Canadian context, hold lessons for other pluralistic federations, or for nations confronting similar issues of cultural accommodation.

Product Details :

Genre : Political Science
Author : Jeremy Webber
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release : 1994-02-21
File : 384 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780773564473


Canada Today

eBook Download

BOOK EXCERPT:

Product Details :

Genre : Canada
Author :
Publisher :
Release : 1971
File : 428 Pages
ISBN-13 : CUB:U183016081446