LIN 201: Canadian English

Readings

Here are citations for the assigned readings for LIN 201: Canadian English, listed in the order they are assigned.

Required Textbook:

Walker, James A. 2015. Canadian English: A Sociolinguistic Perspective. Routledge.

Additional readings, available through Blackboard:

Geike, The Rev. A. Constable. 1857. Canadian English. The Canadian Journal of Science, Literature and History 2:344-55. [Reprinted in R.H. Southerland, ed. 1977. Readings on Language in Canada. Department of Linguistics, Calgary, ed. 4-6.]

Chambers, J. 2006. Dialect Topography. http://dialect.topography.chass.utoronto.ca.

Boberg, C. 2005. The Canadian shift in Montreal. Language Variation and Change 17.2: 133-54.

Boberg, C. 2004. Ethnic patterns in the phonetics of Montreal English. Journal of Sociolinguistics 8.4:538-68.

Chumak-Horbatsch, R. 1987. Language Use in a Ukrainian home: a Toronto sample. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 63: 99-118.

Goldstein, T. 1997. Bilingual life in a multilingual high school classroom: Teaching and learning in Cantonese and English. The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes, 53(2): 356-72.

McKinnie, M. (2000). What do you want me to say, in Deutsch oder in English?: Code-switching and borrowing strategies for two post-World War II German-speaking immigrants in Edmonton. In L. Zimmerman & H. Froeschle (Eds.), German-Canadian Yearbook XVI:171-188.

Avis, W. 1975. The phonemic segments of an Edmonton idiolect. In J. Chambers (ed.). Canadian English: Origins and Structures. Methuen. 117-28

Chambers, J. & T. Heisler. 1999. Dialect Topography of Québec City English. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 44.1: 23-48.

McArthur, T. 1989. Sections 1 and 2. The English Language as used in Quebec: A Survey. Queens’ University: Strathy Language Unit. 1-11.

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Updated September 24, 2018.