Lexical Innovation in World Englishes (Routledge Focus on Linguistics) - Hardcover

Anesa, Patrizia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815363451 ISBN 13: 9780815363453

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Lexical Innovation in World Englishes contributes to the investigation of World Englishes by offering insights into the lexical developments of selected English varieties and their cross-fertilization potential. Taking a theoretical and empirical approach and focusing on neological formations, this book:

• discusses and problematizes different categorizations of English varieties and processes of word formation, considering the expansion of English across the world;
• draws on authentic examples taken from language corpora to gain a finer understanding of the varieties’ transformations and of their reciprocal influences from a lexical perspective;
• aims to validate general considerations on the lexical features of these varieties of English and test them using corpora.

Including eight empirical case studies, this innovative text shows the importance of investigating lexical developments to observe the evolution of a variety while arguing for the need to go beyond a purely structuralist approach and to include a broader discursive and sociological perspective. Lexical Innovation in World Englishes is key reading for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of World Englishes and language varieties.

About this title

About the Author:

Patrizia Anesa is a lecturer at the University of Bergamo, Italy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0815363451
• ISBN 13: 9780815363453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174