从历史沿革和移民构成看加拿大英语的归属

Canadian English:A Historical and Immigrant Sourcing Research

在英语国别研究中,加拿大英语是国际英语变体的一个重要组成部分。本文从历史沿革和移民地理分布的角度,分析了加拿大的移民构成,从而从民族根源上探讨了加拿大英语与英国英语、美国英语之间的联系与变异,提出加拿大英语事实上是以英国英语为基础并在美国英语日益强盛的影响下形成的一种具有加拿大特色的英语。

Canadian English counts for an important part of the studies of English variety. The paper attempts to deal with the correlations and differences between Canadian English and British and American English based on the immigrant history of Canada and the distribution of immigrants of different linguistic origins. The discussion ends with the conclusion that Canadian English is a product of the cultural evolution in Canada under the cross influence from both British English and American English.