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ERIC Number: EJ402568
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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Sociolinguistic Analysis of a Register: Birthday Notices in the Papua New Guinea "Post Courier."
Holzknecht, Suzanne
World Englishes, v8 n2 p179-92 Sum 1989
Discusses the birthday notices that appear in the advertising section of the Papua New Guinea "Post Courier." The texts of these notices are analyzed from a sociolinguistic perspective, and their context is considered as a register of the variety of English that has become known as Papua New Guinea English. (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Idioms, Language Research, Language Styles, Language Variation, Phonetics, Social Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Syntax, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Urban Language, Written Language
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Papua New Guinea
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