02120nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139226400 UkCbUP 20180107143413.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120103s2014||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139226400 (ebook) 9781107027473 (hardback) 9781316508985 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PR9210 .D48 2014 810.9/9729 23 Deuber, Dagmar, author. English in the Caribbean : Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad / [electronic resource] Dagmar Deuber. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. 1 online resource (290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in English Language Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). This book presents an in-depth study of English as spoken in two major anglophone Caribbean territories, Jamaica and Trinidad. Based on data from the International Corpus of English, it focuses on variation at the morphological and syntactic level between the educated standard and more informal educated spoken usage. Dagmar Deuber combines quantitative analyses across several text categories with qualitative analyses of transcribed text passages that are grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and recent approaches to linguistic style and identity. The discussion is situated in the context of variation in the Caribbean and the wider context of world Englishes, and the sociolinguistic background of Jamaica and Trinidad is also explored. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers interested in the fields of sociolinguistics, world Englishes, and language contact. Print version: 9781107027473 Studies in English Language. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139226400 Cambridge Books Online 236579 236579