LINGUIST List 21.4632 Thu Nov 18 2010 TOC: English Today 26/4 (2010) Editor for this issue: Justin Petro <justinlinguistlist.org> Directory         1.     Joyce Reid , English Today Vol. 26 No. 4 (2010) Message 1: English Today Vol. 26 No. 4 (2010) Date: 15-Nov-2010 From: Joyce Reid <jreidcambridge.org> Subject: English Today Vol. 26 No. 4 (2010) E-mail this message to a friend Publisher: Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Journal Title: English Today Volume Number: 26 Issue Number: 4 Issue Date: 2010 Main Text: From Brazil and Turkmenistan to the mystery of English in China Eduardo Diniz de Figueiredo The ET column. Will Chinese take over from English as the world's most important language? David Graddol To borrow or not to borrow: the use of English loanwords as slang on websites in Brazilian Portuguese Eduardo Diniz de Figueiredo Unvernacular Appalachia: an empirical perspective on West Virginia dialect variation Kirk Hazen, Paige Butcher, Ashley King Old whine online: prescriptive grammar blogs on the Internet Deborah Schaffer Teaching English in Turkmenistan Valerie Sartor Variation in V+the+N idioms Massrura Mostafa Lexical traps in Hong Kong English Julie Groves, Hei Tao Chan Dying and killing: euphemisms in current English Gerry Abbott China's English mystery – the views of a China ‘foreign expert’ Martin Wolff Defending Strunk and White Michael Bulley From Anzac to zack: a lexicographer looks at Australian English James Lambert ENG volume 26 issue 4 Cover and Front matter ENG volume 26 issue 4 Back Cover Linguistic Field(s): English                             General Linguistics Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)                             English (eng)                             Portuguese (por) New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 18-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.