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Standard English the widening debate /

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Standard English the widening debate /

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Belfast English and standard English dialect variation and parameter setting / by Henry, Alison, professor

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Shakespeare's non-standard English a dictionary of his informal language / by Blake, N. F. (Norman Francis)

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Belfast English and standard English dialect variation and parameter setting / by Henry, Alison, professor

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Shakespeare's non-standard English a dictionary of his informal language / by Blake, N. F. (Norman Francis)

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Da Kine Talk : From Pidgin to Standard English in Hawaii / by Carr, Elizabeth Ball

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Da Kine Talk : From Pidgin to Standard English in Hawaii / by Carr, Elizabeth Ball

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The grammar problem in higher education in Cameroon : assessing written standard english among undergraduates of the department of English at the University of Yaounde 1 / by Ayafor, Miriam

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The grammar problem in higher education in Cameroon : assessing written standard english among undergraduates of the department of English at the University of Yaounde 1 / by Ayafor, Miriam

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English in Europe today sociocultural and educational perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…The dynamics of English in a multilingual Europe / Antje Wilton and Annick De Houwer -- The increasing role of English in Basque education / Jasone Cenoz -- English language testing: A case study of test development in Greece / Susan Gass and Daniel Reed -- When comprehension is crucial: Using English as a medium of instruction at a German university / Annelie Knapp -- English as a l and the Standard English misunderstanding / Kurt Kohn -- The early acquisition of English as a second language: The case of young Chinese learners of English in Britain / Li Wei -- The more languages, the more English A Dutch perspective / Jacomine Nortier -- Conceptualizing English for a multilingual Europe / Barbara Seidlhofer -- English as a foreign language: The role of out-of-school language input / Marjolijn Verspoor, Kees de Bot and Eva van Rein.…”
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English in Europe today sociocultural and educational perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…The dynamics of English in a multilingual Europe / Antje Wilton and Annick De Houwer -- The increasing role of English in Basque education / Jasone Cenoz -- English language testing: A case study of test development in Greece / Susan Gass and Daniel Reed -- When comprehension is crucial: Using English as a medium of instruction at a German university / Annelie Knapp -- English as a l and the Standard English misunderstanding / Kurt Kohn -- The early acquisition of English as a second language: The case of young Chinese learners of English in Britain / Li Wei -- The more languages, the more English A Dutch perspective / Jacomine Nortier -- Conceptualizing English for a multilingual Europe / Barbara Seidlhofer -- English as a foreign language: The role of out-of-school language input / Marjolijn Verspoor, Kees de Bot and Eva van Rein.…”
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Inventing English a portable history of the language / by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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Inventing English a portable history of the language / by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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English modality : core, periphery and evidentiality /

Table of Contents: “…: an essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English / Geoffrey Leech -- Had better, 'd better and better : diachronic and transatlantic variation / Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Noël and An van Linden -- Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals : a comparative study / Peter Collins -- Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician / Lucía Loureiro-Porto -- Modal uses of the English present progressive / Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit -- On the generic argument for the modality of will / Debra Ziegeler -- Reality and related concepts : towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen -- A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem / Aurelija Usoniené and Jolanta Šinkūnienė -- Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality / Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla -- Modal verbs in news-related blogs : when the blogger counts / Roberta Facchinetti -- Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance : intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews / Laura Hidalgo Downing and Begoñia Núñez Perucha -- Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq inquiry : Blair vs. …”
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English modality : core, periphery and evidentiality /

Table of Contents: “…: an essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English / Geoffrey Leech -- Had better, 'd better and better : diachronic and transatlantic variation / Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Noël and An van Linden -- Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals : a comparative study / Peter Collins -- Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician / Lucía Loureiro-Porto -- Modal uses of the English present progressive / Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit -- On the generic argument for the modality of will / Debra Ziegeler -- Reality and related concepts : towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen -- A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem / Aurelija Usoniené and Jolanta Šinkūnienė -- Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality / Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla -- Modal verbs in news-related blogs : when the blogger counts / Roberta Facchinetti -- Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance : intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews / Laura Hidalgo Downing and Begoñia Núñez Perucha -- Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq inquiry : Blair vs. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view