Focus on Canada
By: edited by Sandra Clarke.
Contributors: Clarke, Sandra.
Series: Varieties of English around the world.; v. 11
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: English language -- Canada -- Variation; English language -- Social aspects -- Canada
Description: Although varieties of North American English have come in for a good deal of linguistic scrutiny in recent years, the vast majority of published works have dealt with American rather than Canadian English. This volume constitutes a welcome addition to our linguistic knowledge of English-speaking Canada. While the focus of the volume is primarily synchronic, several of the dozen papers it contains offer a diachronic perspective on Canadian English.

Topics range from general issues in Canadian lexicography and orthography to sociolinguistic studies of varieties of English spoken in all major geographical areas of the country: Atlantic Canada, Ontario, Quebec and the West. A theme common to many of the articles is the relationship of Canadian English to American varieties to the south
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.