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Topicalization in Asian Englishes Forms, Functions, and Frequencies of a Fronting Construction
By Sven Leuckert
Copyright 2019
240 Pages
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Routledge
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11 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
238 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
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Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and Linguistics This monograph is the first comprehensive study of topicalization in Asian second-language varieties of English and provides an in-depth analysis of the forms, functions, and frequencies of topicalization in four Asian Englishes. Topicalization, that is, the sentence-initial placement of constituents other than the... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Approaching topicalization 3. Topic-prominence in Asian contact languages 4. Development and variety status of four Asian Englishes 5. Corpus analysis: Data basis and methodology 6. Forms, functions, and frequencies of topicalization 7. Explaining topicalization frequencies 8. Conclusion and outlook
Biography
Sven Leuckert is a lecturer in the Institute of English and American Studies at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany.
"Leuckert's study on Topicalization in Asian Englishes is a corpus-based study offering new explanations for old assumptions. Leuckert provides a detailed analysis of forms, functions and frequencies of four Asian Englishes. In proposing parameters for topicalization, he critically addresses new lines of research and thus paves the way for discourse-pragmatic analyses of corpus data." — Ilka Mindt, Paderborn University, Germany"A fascinating exploration of the complex and multidimensional sources of grammatical change in World Englishes. Leuckert expertly weaves together second language acquisition, cognition, frequency, discourse pragmatics, and identity for an exemplary comparative analysis of English topicalization in four different Asian contact settings. An indispensable resource for the study of how grammars are transformed by social contact." — Professor Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary University of London
