2010
DOI: 10.1075/veaw.g41
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Varieties of English in Writing

Abstract: In research on Creoles, historical written texts have in recent decades been fruitfully employed to shed light on the diachronic development of these languages and the nature of Creole genesis. They have so far been much less frequently used to derive social information about these communities and to improve our understanding of the sociolinguistics and stylistic structure of these languages. This paper surveys linguistic research on early written texts in the anglophone Caribbean and takes a critical look at … Show more

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“…Blogging bears some comparison with the register of letter-writing, although it is probably less stylized than the letters collected in historical corpora such as ARCHER (A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers) and the Australian COOEE (Corpus of Early Oz English) (Fritz 2007). The extent to which writing represents the speaking voice is problematic, as discussed by Hickey (2010) in his introduction to research on varieties of English in writing. Written language reflects the author's communicative intent rather than spontaneous narrative, and the audience constructed through it is always a fiction (Ong 1975).…”
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“…Blogging bears some comparison with the register of letter-writing, although it is probably less stylized than the letters collected in historical corpora such as ARCHER (A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers) and the Australian COOEE (Corpus of Early Oz English) (Fritz 2007). The extent to which writing represents the speaking voice is problematic, as discussed by Hickey (2010) in his introduction to research on varieties of English in writing. Written language reflects the author's communicative intent rather than spontaneous narrative, and the audience constructed through it is always a fiction (Ong 1975).…”
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confidence: 96%