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

Orkin, Mark M.

ISBN 10: 1138910422 / ISBN 13: 9781138910423

Published by Routledge, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Speaking Canadian English: An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada (Routledge Library Editions: The English Language)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138910422
• ISBN 13: 9781138910423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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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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