TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deuber,Dagmar
TI  - English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad 
T2  - Studies in English Language
SN  - 9781139226400 (ebook)
AV  - PR9210 .D48 2014
U1  - 810.9/9729 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - This book presents an in-depth study of English as spoken in two major anglophone Caribbean territories, Jamaica and Trinidad. Based on data from the International Corpus of English, it focuses on variation at the morphological and syntactic level between the educated standard and more informal educated spoken usage. Dagmar Deuber combines quantitative analyses across several text categories with qualitative analyses of transcribed text passages that are grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and recent approaches to linguistic style and identity. The discussion is situated in the context of variation in the Caribbean and the wider context of world Englishes, and the sociolinguistic background of Jamaica and Trinidad is also explored. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers interested in the fields of sociolinguistics, world Englishes, and language contact
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139226400
ER  -