The Oxford Guide to World English by Tom Mcarthur

The Oxford Guide to World English by Tom Mcarthur

The Oxford Guide to World English takes up where its 'mother book', the Oxford Companion to the English Language, left off. Organized by continent, there are chapters on Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, Oceania, and Antarctica. Tom McArthur covers the world's many varieties of English in an interconnected way and notes the ties that bind varieties and regions that are geographically far apart, as with: West African English and African American English; Scots, Ulster Scots, the Scotch-Irish migrations to Appalachia in the US, and country and western music; and aspects of Australian, New Zealand, South African, and Falklands English as southern-hemisphere varieties. The end result is a book that, while invaluable to the specialist, is accessible and appealing to the non-specialist, and covers a vast spread of 'Englishes' from Brummie, Cockney, Estuary, and RP in the UK to New York and New Orleans speech in the US and such other varieties as Indian English, Maori English, and West African Pidgin. This hugely comprehensive work provides a fascinating and novel survey of English as both a pre-eminent 'standard' world language and a family of vigorously diverse regional varieties.

Tom McArthur is an independent writer, editor, consultant, and presenter, as well as the editor of English Today: the International Review of the English Language, a Cambridge University Press quarterly publication. He is the Deputy Director of the Dictionary Research Centre and an Honorary University Fellow at the University of Exeter, as well as the General Editor of R.R.K. Publishing. Hartmann is a member of the Exeter Language and Lexicography series. He is the editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language and has authored over 20 books.

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ISBN 13	9780198607717
ISBN 10	0198607717
Title	The Oxford Guide to World English
Author	Tom Mcarthur
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2003-10-01
Number of pages	530
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