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Topicalization in Asian Englishes - Forms, Functions, and Frequencies of a Fronting Construction (Paperback)
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Topicalization in Asian Englishes - Forms, Functions, and Frequencies of a Fronting Construction (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in World Englishes
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Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and
Linguistics This monograph is the first comprehensive study of
topicalization in Asian second-language varieties of English and
provides an in-depth analysis of the forms, functions, and
frequencies of topicalization in four Asian Englishes.
Topicalization, that is, the sentence-initial placement of
constituents other than the subject, has been found to occur
frequently in the English spoken by many Asians, but so far the
possible reasons for this have never been scrutinized. This book
closes this research gap by taking into account the structures of
the major contact languages, the roles of second-language
acquisition and politeness as well as other factors in order to
explain why topicalization is highly frequent in some varieties
such as Indian English and much less frequent in other varieties
such as Hong Kong English. In addition to exploring major and minor
forces involved in explaining the frequency of topicalization, the
forms and functions of the feature are assessed. Central questions
addressed in this regard are the following: Which syntactic
constituents tend to be topicalized the most and the least
frequently? Which discourse effects does topicalization achieve?
How can we approach topicalization methodologically? And, lastly,
which influence do language processing and production have on
topicalization?
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