31.1273, Books: Creating Canadian English: Dollinger

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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 21:41:32
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Creating Canadian English: Dollinger

 


Title: Creating Canadian English 
Subtitle: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/creating-canadian-english-professor-mountaineer-and-national-variety-english?format=HB 


Author: Stefan Dollinger

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108497718 Pages: 300 Price: U.S. $ 99.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108497718 Pages: 300 Price: U.K. £ 74.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108708753 Pages: 300 Price: U.S. $ 28.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108708753 Pages: 300 Price: U.K. £ 21.99


Abstract:

This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's
conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twentieth century to
the present. This book is not just another history of Canadian English; it is
a history of the variety's discovery, codification, and eventual acceptance,
as well as the contribution of the linguists behind it. Written by an active
research linguist focusing on Canadian English, this book is an archive-based
biography on multiple levels. Through a combination of new data and
re-interpretations of existing studies, a new voice is given to earlier
generations of Canadian linguists who, generally forgotten today, shaped the
variety and how we think about it. Exploring topics such as linguistic
description and codification, dictionary making, linguistic imperialism,
linguistic attitudes, language and Canadian identity, or the threat of
Americanisation, Dollinger presents a coherent, integrated and balanced
account of developments spanning over almost a century.

1. What is Canadian English? 2. The heritage of Canadian English 3. Avis pulls
it off 4. The 'technology': slips, slips, and more slips 5. 1967 – excitement
and hype 6. Riding the wave of success 7. A global village and a national
dictionary war 8. Decolonizing DCHP-1 and DCHP-2 9. Is there really a Canadian
English? Further reading.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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