The non-standard in writing: A look at West African and Southeast Asian literature

The present paper investigates the representation of non-standard varieties of English in literary texts. Using a corpus-based approach focussed on Southeast Asian and West African texts while also drawing on texts from Scotland for purposes of comparison, the study performs a quantitative analysis...

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Main Author: Michael PERCILLIER
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2018-06-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/6312