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Variation in the Grammar of Black South African English

Author : Verena Minow
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631601488
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Variation in the Grammar of Black South African English written by Verena Minow and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black South African English, the variety of English used by mother-tongue speakers of South Africa's indigenous languages, has received considerable attention during the last two decades. However, so far most of the accounts of this variety have been only qualitative in nature. This book reports on one of the first studies offering extensive quantitative analyses of four typical features of Black South African English grammar: omission of past tense marking, extended use of the progressive aspect, article omission, and use of left dislocation. Drawing on a corpus of spoken data, the study's focus lies on the investigation of the stability of the selected features and hence aims to ascertain which of these are characteristic of Black South African English as a whole. Speakers exhibiting differing levels of competence in English are compared. It is shown that the analysed features are used by speakers of Black South African English regardless of their proficiency level, but, at the same time, there are considerable differences concerning the frequency of occurrence of these features.

Language Variation in South Africa

Author : Cornelia Neubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Language Variation in South Africa written by Cornelia Neubert and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African-American English

Author : Salikoko S. Mufwene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000428168
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book African-American English written by Salikoko S. Mufwene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. It covers both the main linguistic features, in particular the grammar, phonology, and lexicon as well as the sociological, political and educational issues connected with African-American English. The editors have played key roles in the development of African-American English and Black Linguistics as overlapping academic fields of study. Along with other leading figures, notably Geneva Smitherman, William Labov and Walt Wolfram, they provide an authoritative diverse guide to these vitally important subject areas. Drawing on key moments of cultural significance from the Ebonics controversy to the rap of Ice-T, the contributors cover the state of the art in scholarship on African-American English, and actively dispel misconceptions, address new questions and explore new approaches. This classic edition has a new foreword by Sonja Lanehart, setting the book in context and celebrating its influence. This is an essential text for courses on African-American English, key reading for Varieties of English and World Englishes modules and an important reference for students of linguistics, black studies and anthropology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes

Author : Alexandra U. Esimaje
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027262934
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes by : Alexandra U. Esimaje

Download or read book Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes written by Alexandra U. Esimaje and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpus linguistics has become one of the most widely used methodologies across the different linguistic subdisciplines; especially the study of world-wide varieties of English uses corpus-based investigations as one of the chief methodologies. This volume comprises descriptions of the many new corpus initiatives both within and outside Africa that aim to compile various corpora of African Englishes. Moreover, it contains cutting-edge corpus-based research on African Englishes and the use of corpora in pedagogic contexts within African institutions. This volume thus serves both as a practical introduction to corpus compilation (Part I of the book), corpus-based research (Part II) and the application of corpora in language teaching (Part III), and is intended both for those researchers not yet familiar with corpus linguistics and as a reference work for all international researchers investigating the linguistic properties of African Englishes.

English in Multilingual South Africa

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425348
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book English in Multilingual South Africa written by Raymond Hickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.

The Standard in South African English and Its Social History

Author : Len W. Lanham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3872762109
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (727 download)

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Book Synopsis The Standard in South African English and Its Social History by : Len W. Lanham

Download or read book The Standard in South African English and Its Social History written by Len W. Lanham and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the South African variety of English is an exercise in the sociology of language conducted mainly within the conceptual framework and methodology created by William Labov. It accepts that social process and social structure are reflected in patterns of covariation involving linguistic and social variables, and in attitudes to different varieties of speech within the community. This premise is pursued here in its historical implications: linguistuic evidence in present-day speech patterns of earlier states of the society and of the social, political and cultural changes that have brought about the present state. The second main focus in this volume is directed at the concept of standard variety, that is the social attributes and functions of a formal speech pattern for which the status of standard might be claimed.

Re-assessing the Present Perfect

Author : Valentin Werner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110443538
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Re-assessing the Present Perfect by : Valentin Werner

Download or read book Re-assessing the Present Perfect written by Valentin Werner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a well-known fact that the area of the present perfect has always been a hotly contested ground, but recent corpus analyses have shown that grammatical variation in this realm in English is far more pervasive than previously assumed. This volume is the first ever book-length treatment dedicated to corpus-based work on the present perfect. It offers fresh theoretical insights resting on a solid empirical footing and investigates central aspects of language contact and change, grammaticalization, typology, and dialect formation. It sheds light on this morphosyntactic area from different angles, as it comprises both diachronic and synchronic viewpoints. Contributions explore variation in the expression of perfect meaning and the multifunctionality of perfect forms in a number of native and non-native varieties, thus going beyond the traditional British/American English paradigm, while a second focus lies on cross-variety comparisons. Bringing together the knowledge of leading experts in the field, this book represents the state of the art in data-driven research on the present perfect and will be of interest for those working in the fields of language variation and change, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and typology.

The Oxford Handbook of African American Language

Author : Sonja L. Lanehart
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199795398
Total Pages : 945 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of African American Language written by Sonja L. Lanehart and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2015 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a set of diverse analyses of traditional and contemporary work on language structure and use in African American communities.

Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings

Author : Bertus van Rooy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027246963
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings by : Bertus van Rooy

Download or read book Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings written by Bertus van Rooy and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings explores an innovative proposal: that linguistic similarities identified in different forms of contact-influenced varieties of language use (including translation, native and non-native varieties of English, and language use of bilinguals more generally) can be accounted for in a coherent framework grounded in the notion of ‘constrained communication’. These varieties have hitherto been studied in independent scholarly traditions, especially translation studies and world Englishes, leaving the potential underlying unity underexplored, both conceptually and empirically. The chapters collected in this volume aim to develop such a unified perspective by drawing on corpus data across a range of languages and language varieties, with a focus on written language, a neglected data source in research on multilingual contact settings. The findings point to shared general characteristics across individual contact settings, which result from (probabilistically conditioned) manifestations of the same deeper regularities – constraints – present in diverse language-contact settings.

Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology

Author : Ulrike Gut
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110346087
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology by : Ulrike Gut

Download or read book Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology written by Ulrike Gut and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is concerned with the acquisition of English phonology, both segmental and suprasegmental, by learners of English as a second language, as a third language and by speakers of a postcolonial (“new”) variety of English. It focuses on the acquisition process and factors influencing it, based on insights from all three disciplines.

Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes

Author : Sandra C. Deshors
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263523
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes by : Sandra C. Deshors

Download or read book Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes written by Sandra C. Deshors and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes. In this endeavour, this volume unveils the many facets of linguistic innovations in non-native English varieties and explores the fine line between learners’ erroneous versus creative use of a target language. Adopting empirical, corpus-based approaches to portray linguistic innovations characteristic of EFL and ESL varieties, the contributions show how the interaction of linguistic and social forces influences the development of novel linguistic forms in both endonormative ESL contexts and exonormative EFL contexts. This volume is of relevance to linguists who are interested in the features of non-native English and who wish to gain a better understanding of the nature of innovations along the EFL – ESL continuum.Originally published as a special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpora Research 2:2 (2016).

Middle-Class African American English

Author : Tracey Weldon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521895316
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Middle-Class African American English written by Tracey Weldon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its historical development to its current context, this is the first full-length overview of middle-class African American English.

Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English

Author : Sonja L. Lanehart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027297983
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English by : Sonja L. Lanehart

Download or read book Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English written by Sonja L. Lanehart and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-10-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern White Vernaculars, Gullah, and Caribbean English creoles), language use in the African American community (e.g., Hip Hop, women’s language, and directness), and application of our knowledge about AAE to issues in education (e.g., improving overall academic success). To its credit (since most books avoid the issue), the volume also seeks to define the term ‘AAE’ and challenge researchers to address the complexity of defining a language and its speakers. The volume collectively tries to help readers better understand language use in the African American community and how that understanding benefits all who value language variation and the knowledge such study brings to our society.

Oxford Companion to the English Language

Author : Tom McArthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191073873
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Companion to the English Language written by Tom McArthur and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. It is intended both for reference and for browsing. The first edition of this landmark Companion, published in 1998, adopted a strong international perspective, covering topics from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. It succinctly described and discussed the English language at the end of the twentieth century, including its distribution and varieties, its cultural, political, and educational impact worldwide, its nature, origins, and prospects, and its pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, word-formation, and usage. This new edition notably focuses on World Englishes, English language teaching, English as an international language, and the effect of technological advances on the English language. More than 130 new entries include African American English, British Sign Language, China English, digital literacy, multimodality, social networking, superdiversity, and text messaging, among many others. It also includes new biographical entries on key individuals who have had an impact on the English language in recent decades, including Beryl (Sue) Atkins, Adam Kilgariff, and John Sinclair. It is an invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for any general reader with an interest in language.

Standards of English

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521763894
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Standards of English written by Raymond Hickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length exploration of 'standard Englishes' with contributions by the leading experts on each major variety of English discussed.

Grammatical Change in English World-wide

Author : Peter Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789027203755
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Grammatical Change in English World-wide written by Peter Collins and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. The book is divided into two parts, with ten chapters on 'Inner Circle' varieties such as Australian, Canadian, and Irish English, and eight on 'Outer Circle' varieties such as Philippine, Indian, and Nigerian English. Contributors examine a range of topics including the progressive aspect, modal auxiliaries, do-support, verb morphology, and quotatives, using a wide variety of corpus resources. Overarching research questions addressed include the following: Do diachronic tendencies observed in a particular variety converge with, diverge from, or run in parallel with, those in the parent variety? What are the possible causes of changes observed (e.g. English teaching traditions, Americanisation, internal changes in registers)? This book will appeal to linguists, particularly those interested in grammatical description, corpus linguistics and World Englishes.

Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes

Author : Paula Rautionaho
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000653978
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes written by Paula Rautionaho and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection charts the evolution of grammatical variation in Englishes from Late Middle English to the present, using corpus linguistic tools to address divergence and convergence in local and global perspectives. The book considers both diachronic and synchronic perspectives in grammatical variation across varieties of English across the UK, North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The volume reflects on the questions of whether patterns of variation diverge or converge and to what extent catalysts for change are shared in time and space. Chapters look at different factors in grammatical variation at both the macro and micro level, investigating specific linguistic and grammatical features but also at wider phenomena in contact linguistics, social patterns, social networks, and media-based corpora. Chapters progress from the local to the global, all with an eye towards using the latest methodological approaches from corpus linguistics to shed light on the affordances of data-informed methods to study grammatical change and the possibilities for future research. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and World Englishes.