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Creating Canadian English : the professor, the mountaineer, and a national variety of English /

"This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twentieth century to the present. This book is not just another history of Canadian English; it is a history of the variety's discovery, codification, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dollinger, Stefan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
English language > Canada > History.
English language > Dialects > Canada.
English language > Variation > Canada.
English language.
English language > Dialects.
English language > Variation.
Canada.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • What is Canadian English?
  • The heritage of Canadian English
  • Avis pulls it off
  • The "technology": slips, slips, and more slips
  • 1967
  • excitement and hype
  • Riding the wave of success
  • A global village and a national dictionary war
  • Decolonizing DCHP-1 and DCHP-2
  • Is there really a Canadian English?