David Deterding, Joan Beal, Patrick Honeybone, April McMahon
Over the past few decades, Singapore English has been emerging as an independent variety of English with its own distinct style of pronunciation, grammar and word usage. All the findings presented in the book are illustrated with extensive examples from one hour of recorded conversational data from the Lim Siew Hwee Corpus of Informal Singapore Speech, as well as some extracts from the NIE Corpus of Spoken Singapore Speech and recent blogs. In addition, usage patterns found in the data are summarised, to provide a solid foundation for the reported occurrence of various features of the...
Over the past few decades, Singapore English has been emerging as an independent variety of English with its own distinct style of pronunciation, gram...
David Deterding, Joan Beal, Patrick Honeybone, April McMahon
Over the past few decades, Singapore English has been emerging as an independent variety of English with its own distinct style of pronunciation, grammar and word usage. All the findings presented in the book are illustrated with extensive examples from one hour of recorded conversational data from the Lim Siew Hwee Corpus of Informal Singapore Speech, as well as some extracts from the NIE Corpus of Spoken Singapore Speech and recent blogs. In addition, usage patterns found in the data are summarised, to provide a solid foundation for the reported occurrence of various features of the...
Over the past few decades, Singapore English has been emerging as an independent variety of English with its own distinct style of pronunciation, gram...
Covers topical issues and examines the use of dialect in media, advertising and the tourist industry. This book outlines the linguistic characteristics of regional accents and dialects in terms of regional pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.
Covers topical issues and examines the use of dialect in media, advertising and the tourist industry. This book outlines the linguistic characteristic...
