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Peer reviewedPlatt, John – Language Sciences, 1989
Examines the concept of indigenized Englishes and compares them with pidgins and creoles, focusing on attitudes about indigenized English, creative aspects of indigenized English, substratum influences, and universals. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Language Attitudes, Language Universals
Peer reviewedD'Souza, Jean – World Englishes, 1990
An examination of linguists' attempts to characterize the variety of English used in various articles and novels found that, although they used different criteria for classification, the linguists almost equally (about 30 percent of the time each) either could not identify, correctly identified, or incorrectly identified the variety. (14…
Descriptors: Dialects, English, Language Classification, Language Patterns
