Englishes today
Subtitle: multiple varieties, multiple perspectives
By: edited by Cristina Suárez-Gómez and Elena Seoane
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781443883863
Subjects: English language; Globalization; Variation; Study and teaching; Foreign speakers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Element-final like in Irish English : notes on its incidence, frequency and distribution / Mario Serrano-Losada; title: Morphological variation of verbs in native varieties of English / Bárbara Balle-Mascaró and Cristina Suárez-Gómez; title: Does present-day written Ulster Scots abandon tradition? / Göran Wolf; title: Down the passive gradient : from agentive to borderline get + past participle constructions in Singaporean English / Eduardo Coto-Villalibre; title: Be going to and have to : a corpus study of Sri Lankan English usage in comparison to British and American English / Manel Herat; title: The predominance of English in the South African context : an issue of identity / Pedro Álvarez-Mosquera; title: A portrait of English and its users in Japanese junior high school textbooks / Amy Aisha; title: Apologies in interlanguage pragmatics : the role of retrospective verbal reports in oral production / Vicente Beltrán-Palanques and Alicia Martínez Flor.