دانلود کتاب Bengali-English in East London: A Study in Urban Multilingualism

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Contens
Acknowledgements 9
Chapter One: Introduction 11
1.1. Aims and objectives 11
1.2. Structure 14
1.3. Notes and conventions 15
Chapter Two: Tower Hamlets and the Bengali community 17
2.1. Brief introduction: the borough of Tower Hamlets 17
2.2. The Bengali community in Tower Hamlets 19
2.3. The aspect of language: Bengali, Sylheti and Identity 26
Chapter Three: Analytic framework: Describing Bengali-English 31
3.1. Social and Sociolinguistic Aspects 32
3.2. Psycholinguistic aspects in SLA 51
3.3. SLA specific theories - an outline 57
3.4. Theories in context: Core hypotheses of this study 73
Chapter Four: Methodological Issues 75
4.1. Preliminaries: Spontaneous speech versus experimental data 75
4.2. Obtaining speech data 78
4.3. Obtaining socio-biographic data 84
Chapter Five: Analysis of six syntactic categories 87
5.1. Compilation of corpus and choice of units for analysis 88
5.2. Assessment and analysis of utterances 92
5.3. Performance in six syntactic categories 96
5.4. Acquisition of copula \'he\' and development of IP 104
5.5. Linguistic interference: Sylheti and the London vernacular 108
5.6 Summary 127
Chapter Six: Syntactic development and overall performance 131
6.1. Development of a global proficiency score 131
6.2. Development of a global proficiency score 134
6.3. Results 140
6.4. Summary: Syntactic development of interlanguages 155
Chapter Seven: A sociolinguistic Analysis of Bengali-English 159
7.1. Age of arrival, lenght of residence and performance 161
7.2. Evaluating differences: pre- and post-puberty learners 168
7.3. Adjusting the sample and predicting performance 172
7.4. Towards a sociolinguistic analysis 179
7.5. Social variables and L2 performance 197
Chapter Eight: Ethnolinguistic vitality 207
8.1. Recapitulation: Ethnolinguistic Vitality 207
8.2. Methodology, data collection and sample 210
8.3. Analysis and results 213
8.4. Evaluation and discussion 245
Chapter Nine: Epilogue 249
9.1. Acquisition as a multidimensional process 249
9.2. Bengali-English, Benglish and Sylheti-Cockney 251
9.3. The encapsulated community? 254
9.4. Beyond this study: future directions 255
Bibliography 257
Index 267