| Description |
viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. World English(es), world dictionaries / Tom McArthur -- 2. New Zealand, New Zealand English, and the dictionaries / Tony Deverson -- 3. Australian English: Australian Identity / Bruce Moore -- 4. Lexical borrowing from Maori in New Zealand English / Graeme Kennedy -- 5. South African English: politics and the sense of place / Penny Silva -- 6. Globalising Singaporean - Malaysian English in an inclusive learner's dictionary / Vincent B. Y. Ooi -- 7. English in Bangladesh after independence: dynamics of policy and practice / Rahela Banu and Roland Sussex -- 8. English in post-colonial India: an appraisal / R. S. Gupta -- 9. The spread of Anglo-Indian words into South-East Asia / Cavan Hogue -- 10. Pacific Pidgin Englishes: the Australian connection / Darrell Tryon -- 11. Two-way English and the bicultural experience / Ian Malcolm -- 12. The current status of English in Fiji / Jan Tent -- 13. Queen's English and People's English / John Simpson |
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14. Neither Uncle Sam nor John Bull: Canadian English comes of age / Katherine Barber -- 15. Varietal effects: the influence of American English on Australian and British English / Pam Peters |
| Analysis |
Post-colonial Englishes |
| Notes |
"Papers from a conference titled 'Who's centric now?: the present state of post-colonial Englishes', held at the Australian National University 27-29 October 1999" -- pref |
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"The conference was sponsored by Oxford University Press, Australia and New Zealand, in association with the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and the Humanities Research Centre (Australian National University)" -- pref |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Communication, International -- Congresses.
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English language -- Dialects -- Congresses.
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English language -- Dialects -- English-speaking countries -- Congresses.
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English language -- Variation -- Commonwealth countries -- Congresses.
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English language -- Variation -- English-speaking countries -- Congresses.
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English language -- Variation -- Foreign countries -- Congresses.
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English language -- Commonwealth countries -- Congresses.
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English language -- Foreign countries -- Congresses.
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Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Moore, Bruce, 1947-
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Australian National Dictionary Centre.
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Australian National University. Humanities Research Centre.
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| LC no. |
2001536392 |
| ISBN |
0195514505 |
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