Speaking Canadian English: An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada (Routledge Library Editions: The English Language) - Hardcover

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Orkin, Mark M.

 
9781138910423: Speaking Canadian English: An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada (Routledge Library Editions: The English Language)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138910422 ISBN 13: 9781138910423
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? A Canadian and an Englishman? If so, how? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language?

Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada – its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English – how it came to sound the way it does – and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138910422
ISBN 13 
9781138910423
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
290

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