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Creating Canadian English - The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English (Paperback)
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Creating Canadian English - The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English (Paperback)
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This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the
variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the
twentieth century to the present. This book is not just another
history of Canadian English; it is a history of the variety's
discovery, codification, and eventual acceptance, as well as the
contribution of the linguists behind it. Written by an active
research linguist focusing on Canadian English, this book is an
archive-based biography on multiple levels. Through a combination
of new data and re-interpretations of existing studies, a new voice
is given to earlier generations of Canadian linguists who,
generally forgotten today, shaped the variety and how we think
about it. Exploring topics such as linguistic description and
codification, dictionary making, linguistic imperialism, linguistic
attitudes, language and Canadian identity, or the threat of
Americanisation, Dollinger presents a coherent, integrated and
balanced account of developments spanning over almost a century.
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