Contact Languages (Pocket)
avMark Sebba
ISBN: 9780333630242 - UTGIVEN: 1997-05-01Aims to introduce the reader to the field of Pidgin and Creole studies. This book deals with the linguistic, historical and social aspects of the development of Pidgin and Creole languages.[...]
Spelling and Society (Pocket)
avMark Sebba
ISBN: 9780521300759 - UTGIVEN: 201201Spelling matters to people. In America and Britain every day, members of the public write to the media on spelling issues, and take part in spelling contests. In Germany, a reform of the spelling system has provoked a constitutional crisis; in Galicia, a 'war of orthographies' parallels an intense p[...]
Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing (Pocket)
avMark (EDT) Sebba, Shahrzad (EDT) Mahootian, Carla (EDT) Jonsson
ISBN: 9781138792975 - UTGIVEN: 2014-07"Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken code-switching. This volume presents a collection[...]
