American and British English : divided by a common language? /
"Is British English becoming more like American English? If so, why, and in what ways? This book compares examples of American and British language data from the 1930s, 1960s, 1990s and 2000s, to track the most important ways that both varieties are changing over time, and compares the extent t...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Spelling differences
- 3. Letter sequences and affixation
- 4. Higher- frequency words
- 5. Lower-frequency words
- 6. Part of speech categories
- 7. Semantic categories
- 8. Swearing, identity and discourse markers
- 9. Conclusion.