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English in Cyprus or Cyprus English
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ISBN: 9027272174 9789027272171 9027249067 1299631231 9781299631236 9789027249067 9789027249067 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This volume provides the first-ever comprehensive analysis of a potential variety of English, spoken in the Greek part of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Despite the fact that Cyprus was a British colony from 1878 to 1960, the status of the English language spoken there has not yet been discussed systematically within the framework of World Englishes. To determine whether English in Cyprus has second-language variety status or should rather be considered as learner English, the monograph investigates its historical, sociopolitical and sociolinguistic background and, drawing on a corpus of spoken data, offers a synchronic analysis of linguistic features. The results suggest to rethink some of the well-established taxonomies of World Englishes research, especially those that strictly differentiate between second-language varieties and learner Englishes. This renders the book relevant not only to scholars working in the field of World Englishes but also to second language acquisition researchers.


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Children's English in Singapore : acquisition, properties, and use
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ISBN: 1351780786 1315201038 1351780794 103208202X 1138708879 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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"Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology, this book investigates children's acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual Singapore, one of the traditional Kachruvian Outer Circle or ESL countries. The book investigates language choice, use, and dominance in Singaporean families, identifies common linguistic characteristics of L1 Singapore English, as well as the acquisitional route that Singaporean children take. It discusses characteristics at the different levels of language organization, i.e. phonological, morphosyntactic, lexical, and pragmatic features, drawing on a variety of systematically elicited data and Praat-based acoustic analyses. Comparing the results to similar data obtained from children living in England (both mono- and bi-/multilingual), the book also sheds light on how the acquisitional steps taken by Singaporean children differ from or are similar to traditional native speakers of English and children from immigrant families in England"--


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Modelling world Englishes : a joint approach to postcolonial and non-postcolonial varieties
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ISBN: 9781474445863 9781474445887 1474490778 1474445888 1474445861 9781474445894 1474445896 9781474490771 Year: 2020 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This book brings together two types of varieties of English that have so far been treated separately: postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes. It examines these varieties of English against the backdrop of current World Englishes theory, with a special focus on the extra- and Intra-Territorial Forces (EIF) Model.


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Modelling world Englishes : a joint approach to postcolonial and non-postcolonial varieties
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ISBN: 9781474445887 Year: 2020 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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Modelling world Englishes : a joint approach to postcolonial and non-postcolonial varieties
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ISBN: 9781474445887 9781474445863 1474490778 1474445888 1474445861 Year: 2020 Publisher: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,

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This book brings together two types of varieties of English that have so far been treated separately: postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes. It examines these varieties of English against the backdrop of current World Englishes theory, with a special focus on the extra- and Intra-Territorial Forces (EIF) Model.


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Multilingualism : A Sociolinguistic and Acquisitional Approach
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ISBN: 3031284054 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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Multilingualism.


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Statistics Today : Everyday Applications, Research Questions, Insights, and Challenges
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ISBN: 9783662689073 3662689073 Year: 2024 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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This book offers a broad selection of statistical applications to everyday situations, illustrating how exciting and diverse statistical analysis can be. It covers a wide variety of topics, including offering hearing-impaired people the option to enjoy music, extracting meaningful quantitative data from texts, and modeling flood disasters to help get a better grip on them. Most of the examples are not typically found in textbooks but directly relate to real-life problems encountered by the “average person”, including topics relevant for sustainable development. Technical jargon and formalism have been avoided as much as possible, and a detailed statistical background is not assumed of the reader, making the book accessible to anyone interested in current research in statistical applications. Providing an unobscured look at a thoroughly fascinating science, it will help students to develop enthusiasm for statistical issues and methods, and may even inspire ideas for their ownprojects.


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Multilingualism : A Sociolinguistic and Acquisitional Approach
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ISBN: 9783031284052 9783031284045 9783031284069 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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Statistics today : everyday applications, research questions, insights, and challenges
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ISBN: 9783662689073 9783662689066 9783662689080 9783662689097 3662689073 Year: 2024 Publisher: Berlin, Germany : Springer,

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This book offers a broad selection of statistical applications to everyday situations, illustrating how exciting and diverse statistical analysis can be. It covers a wide variety of topics, including offering hearing-impaired people the option to enjoy music, extracting meaningful quantitative data from texts, and modeling flood disasters to help get a better grip on them. Most of the examples are not typically found in textbooks but directly relate to real-life problems encountered by the “average person”, including topics relevant for sustainable development. Technical jargon and formalism have been avoided as much as possible, and a detailed statistical background is not assumed of the reader, making the book accessible to anyone interested in current research in statistical applications. Providing an unobscured look at a thoroughly fascinating science, it will help students to develop enthusiasm for statistical issues and methods, and may even inspire ideas for their ownprojects.


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The evolution of Englishes : the dynamic model and beyond
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ISBN: 9789027249098 Year: 2014 Publisher: Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This two-part volume provides a collection of 27 linguistic studies and contributions that shed light on the evolution of different Englishes world-wide (varieties, learner Englishes, dialects, creoles) from a broad spectrum of different perspectives, including both synchronic and diachronic approaches. What makes the volume unique is that it is the first-ever contribution to the field which includes a section exclusively commited towards testing, discussing and refining Schneider’s (2007) Dynamic Model against recent realities of English world-wide (Part 1). These realities include a wide variety of case studies ranging from regions (socio)linguistically as diverse as South Africa, the Phillipines, Cyprus or Germany. Part 2 goes beyond the Dynamic Model and offers both empirical and theoretical perspectives on the evolution of World Englishes. In doing so, it provides contributions with a theoretical focus on the topic as well as cross-varietal accounts; it sheds light on individual Englishes from different geographical regions and offers new perspectives on “old” varieties.

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