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New-Dialect Formation - The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes (Paperback, New Ed)
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New-Dialect Formation - The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes (Paperback, New Ed)
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This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect
contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the
genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian French and North
American English, but concentrates on Australian and South African
English, with a particular emphasis on the development of the
newest major variety of the language, New Zealand English. Peter
Trudgill argues that the linguistic growth of these new varieties
of English was essentially deterministic, in the sense that their
phonologies are the predictable outcome of the mixture of dialects
taken from the British Isles to the Southern Hemisphere in the 19th
century. These varieties are similar to one another, not because of
historical connections between them, but because they were formed
out of similar mixtures according to the same principles. A key
argument is that social factors such as social status, prestige and
stigma played no role in the early years of colonial dialect
development, and that the 'work' of colonial new-dialect formation
was carried out by children over a period of two generations. The
book also uses insights derived from the study of early forms of
these colonial dialects to shed light back on the nature of
19th-century English in the British Isles.
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