Grammatical Variation And Change In Jersey English (varieties Of English Around The World)
by Anna Rosen /
2014 / English / PDF
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Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and
contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive
description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of
English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based
on a specially compiled corpus of spoken material containing both
present-day sociolinguistic and archive data, it thereby reveals an
intricate network of variation and change in this language-shift
variety. The study adopts a cross-varietal approach for its
analyses, which enables a first more systematic comparison between
the Englishes spoken on Jersey, on its sister island Guernsey and
beyond. In addition, it discusses the implications of identity
aspects for language use in Jersey. The book will therefore be of
major interest to any researcher or student working in the areas of
language variation and change, language contact or dialectology and
to those interested in sociolinguistic methodology and the
relationships between language and identity.
Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and
contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive
description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of
English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based
on a specially compiled corpus of spoken material containing both
present-day sociolinguistic and archive data, it thereby reveals an
intricate network of variation and change in this language-shift
variety. The study adopts a cross-varietal approach for its
analyses, which enables a first more systematic comparison between
the Englishes spoken on Jersey, on its sister island Guernsey and
beyond. In addition, it discusses the implications of identity
aspects for language use in Jersey. The book will therefore be of
major interest to any researcher or student working in the areas of
language variation and change, language contact or dialectology and
to those interested in sociolinguistic methodology and the
relationships between language and identity.
