TY - BOOK ID - 85464136 TI - English in the Caribbean : Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad PY - 2014 SN - 1139898663 1139914332 1139904604 1139902652 1139226401 113991040X 1139922149 1139918257 1139906542 1107027470 1316508986 9781139922142 9781139226400 9781139898669 9781139914338 9781139904605 9781139902656 9781139918251 9781139906548 9781107027473 PB - New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Caribbean literature (English) KW - History and criticism. KW - Langues créoles anglaises KW - Anglais (langue) KW - Langues créoles anglaises UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85464136 AB - "This book presents an in-depth study of English as spoken in two major anglophone Caribbean territories, Jamaica and Trinidad. Based on data from the International Corpus of English, it focuses on variation at the morphological and syntactic level between the educated standard and more informal educated spoken usage. Dagmar Deuber combines quantitative analyses across several text categories with qualitative analyses of transcribed text passages that are grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and recent approaches to linguistic style and identity. The discussion is situated in the context of variation in the Caribbean and the wider context of world Englishes, and the sociolinguistic background of Jamaica and Trinidad is also explored. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers interested in the fields of sociolinguistics, world Englishes, and language contact"-- ER -