Malaysian English

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. For Manfred Görlach on the occasion of his 60th birthday 1
4. Introduction 7
5. I. The Caribbean
6. The English of West Indian university students 11
7. One people, one nation, one destiny 25
8. Style and register in Jamaican Patwa 41
9. Requiem for English in an “English-speaking” community 57
10. Six vernacular texts from Trinidad, 1838–1851 69
11. II. Africa
12. Aspects of the syntax of Nigerian English 85
13. Encounters with English over three generations in a Xhosa family 97
14. A sociolinguistic study of topicalisation phenomena in South African Black English 119
15. Beyond recipes, beyond Maks, beyond Africa. Texts, text-types, text collections and African realities 141
16. The lexis of South African English 159
17. III. Asia
18. The English language in Japan 177
19. Misrecognitions of variability in new varieties of English 189
20. Philippine English 205
21. Negation in Indian Pidgin English 213
22. Grammatical properties of Milhne Bay English and their sources 219
23. Malaysian English 229
24. IV. Australia and New Zealand
25. Attempting to trace Scottish influence on New Zealand English 257
26. Selecting South-East Asian words for an Australian dictionary 273
27. Pluricentric languages and national identity — an antipodean view 287
28. Fowler’s legacy 301
29. Scots as a literary language in Australia 319
30. Australian English as a national language 335
31. Addresses of authors 349
32. Subject index 353