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Introduction | 1 | |
1 | English voices | 3 |
Reading A The English Language Today | 29 | |
Reading B: Franglais | 32 | |
Reading C Language varieties and standard language | 37 | |
2 | English manuscripts: the emergence of a visual identity | 41 |
Reading A Extending the Roman alphabet: some orthographic experiments of the past four centuries | 81 | |
Reading B An essay on the necessity, advantages and practicability of reforming the mode of spelling, and of rendering the orthography of words correspondent to the punctuation | 91 | |
3 | The origins of English | 95 |
Reading A The story of Old English | 133 | |
4 | Modernity and English as a national language | 136 |
Reading A Caxton on dialects | 167 | |
Reading B The development of scientific English | 171 | |
5 | English - colonial to postcolonial | 180 |
Reading A Extract from the Australian National Dictionary | 213 | |
Reading B Identifying Nigerian Usages in Nigerian English | 216 | |
Reading C Creole English | 219 | |
6 | Variation in English grammar | 222 |
Reading A Modals on Tyneside | 252 | |
Reading B Bislama pronouns | 254 | |
Reading C Sentence structure in Irish English | 256 | |
7 | Acccents of English | 259 |
Reading A The high rising tone in Australian English | 289 | |
Reading B Milton Keynes and dialect levelling in south-eastern British English | 292 | |
8 | Style shifting, codeswitching | 301 |
Reading A Hark, Hark the Lark: multiple voicing in DJ talk | 325 | |
Reading B Strategic ambiguity: code-switching in the management of conflict | 331 | |
Reading C Codeswitching with English: types of switching, types of communities | 334 | |
9 | Good and bad English | 338 |
Reading A Extracts from The Times | 365 | |
Reading B Of dipsticks and the joys of a double negative | 368 | |
Reading C Why do purists grumble so much? | 370 | |
References | 372 | |
Historical timeline | 382 | |
IPA consonant and vowel charts | 386 | |
Acknowledgements | 387 | |
Index | 390 |
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