Postcolonial Literature and World Englishes: A Corpus-Based Approach of Modes of Representation of the Non-Standard in Writing

The present study investigates the representation of non-standardised varieties of English in literary prose texts. This is achieved by creating and annotating a corpus of literary texts from Scotland, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. The analysis addresses two major topics. Firstly, the extent of r...

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Main Authors: Michael Percillier, Catherine Paulin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 2017-06-01
Series:International Journal of Literary Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journals.linguistik.de/ijll/article/view/102