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In:Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach
Edited by Edgar W. Schneider
[Varieties of English Around the World G19] 1997
► pp. v–vii

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Published online: 26 June 1997
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Table of contents

For Manfred Görlach on the occasion of his 60th birthday1
Introduction7
I. The Caribbean
The English of West Indian university students11
One people, one nation, one destiny: Race, ethnicity and Guyanese sociolinguistic identity25
Style and register in Jamaican Patwa41
Requiem for English in an “English-speaking” community: The case of Jamaica57
Six vernacular texts from Trinidad, 1838–185169
II. Africa
Aspects of the syntax of Nigerian English85
Encounters with English over three generations in a Xhosa family: For better or for worse?97
A sociolinguistic study of topicalisation phenomena in South African Black English119
Beyond recipes, beyond Maks, beyond Africa. Texts, text-types, text collections and African realities141
The lexis of South African English: Reflections of a multilingual society159
III. Asia
The English language in Japan177
Misrecognitions of variability in new varieties of English: Tamil minority usage in Singapore English189
Philippine English: A variety in search of legitimation205
Negation in Indian Pidgin English213
Grammatical properties of Milhne Bay English and their sources219
Malaysian English: Status, norms, some grammatical and lexical features229
IV. Australia and New Zealand
Attempting to trace Scottish influence on New Zealand English257
Selecting South-East Asian words for an Australian dictionary: How to choose in an English not your own273
Pluricentric languages and national identity — an antipodean view287
Fowler’s legacy301
Scots as a literary language in Australia319
Australian English as a national language335
Addresses of authors349
Subject index353
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