Creating Canadian English
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Creating Canadian English

The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English

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Creating Canadian English

The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English

About this book

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, and eventual acceptance, as well as the contribution of the linguists behind it. Written by an active research linguist focusing on Canadian English, this book is an archive-based biography on multiple levels. Through a combination of new data and re-interpretations of existing studies, a new voice is given to earlier generations of Canadian linguists who, generally forgotten today, shaped the variety and how we think about it. Exploring topics such as linguistic description and codification, dictionary making, linguistic imperialism, linguistic attitudes, language and Canadian identity, or the threat of Americanisation, Dollinger presents a coherent, integrated and balanced account of developments spanning over almost a century.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Frontispiece
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Figures
  9. Tables
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. A Note to the International Reader
  13. Frontispiece
  14. 1 What is Canadian English?
  15. 2 The Heritage of Canadian English
  16. 3 Avis Pulls It Off
  17. 4 The ''Technology'': Slips, Slips, and More Slips
  18. 5 1967 - Excitement and Hype
  19. 6 Riding the Wave of Success
  20. 7 A Global Village and a National Dictionary War
  21. 8 Decolonizing DCHP-1 and DCHP-2
  22. 9 Is There Really a Canadian English?
  23. Notes
  24. Further Reading
  25. Bibliography
  26. General Index