"After publishing A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill:2000), Rudolf de Jong completes his description of the Bedouin dialects of the Sinai Desert of Egypt by adding the pr…
Curiosity about language variation and the role that dialects play in society is natural. In education, the current awareness that America's students represent a rich array of linguistic and cultural resources raises this topic again, with many of the issues from the past still …
New Zealand ways of speaking English
New Zealand ways of speaking English
This book's three sections deal with attitudes to New Zealand English, change and variation in NZE, and pragmatic and discourse studies of NZE. It covers a range of phonological and intonation patterns, as well as syntactic, discourse and pragmatic features of language - some of…