32.618, Books: English on Croker Island: Mailhammer

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:05:26
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: English on Croker Island: Mailhammer

 


Title: English on Croker Island 
Subtitle: The Synchronic and Diachronic Dynamics of Contact and Variation 
Series Title: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110707854/html 


Author: Robert Mailhammer

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110707755 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the
significant degree of variation found across the continent. This book presents
the first description of English spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory,
Australia, in terms of its history, linguistic features and connections to
local Aboriginal languages. It demonstrates that English on Croker Island
shows an extremely high degree of intra- and inter-speaker variation and
embedding in a longstanding multilingual contact situation, both of which
challenge existing models of variation and language contact. These results
have significant ramifications for how variation is modelled, for our
understanding of how postcolonial Englishes develop, as well as for the
dynamics of complex contact situations. The book also puts English on Croker
Island into a typological context of World Englishes by establishing a profile
according to the parameters of the World Atlas of Varieties of English (WAVE).
It is of interest to academics interested in Australian Aboriginal English,
language contact, World Englishes and Australian Aboriginal languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Australian


Written In: English  (eng)

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