The emergence of American English as a discursive variety Tracing enregisterment processes in nineteenth-century U.S. newspapers

Do speakers' identity constructions influence the emergence of new varieties of a language? This question is at the heart of a debate about how the process of the emergence of postcolonial varieties of English can best be modeled. This volume contributes to the debate by linking it to models an...

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Language:English
Published: Language Science Press 2022
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