A Synchronic Note on Early American English

• 발행기관: 한국영어어문교육학회
• 저자명: Jae-Suk Suh
• 간행물 정보: 『영어어문교육』영어어문교육 제17권 제2호, 79~91쪽, 전체 13쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.06.30

영문 초록

The purpose of this paper was to take an in-depth look at early American English around the 17th and 18th century when immigrants from different European countries started to move into the New World. The paper attempted to describe early American English in relation to the process of immigration and settlement from a historical perspective. With a focus on major features of early American English such as uniformity, archaism and richness of lexicon, the paper tried to answer the questions such as how settlement influenced the formation and distribution of regional dialects across the continent, why immigrants tended to show a preference for a uniform way of speaking rather than choosing a variety of regional dialects for communication, and what role foreign languages played in the development of early American English. The overall findings based on the answers to these questions showed how American English went through a variety of processes and changes at the early stages of its development to become a national language later. The paper concluded with some remarks about the implications of the findings for EFL learning and the direction of future research on early American English.

목차

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION

Ⅱ. SETTLEMENT OF ENGLISH IN THE NEW WORLD

Ⅲ. CHARACTERISTICS OF EARLY AMERICAN ENGLISH

Ⅳ. CONCLUSION

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키워드

early American English development of English history of English